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Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, c.1848-1914

Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, c.1848-1914

by PatrickJoyce (Author)

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    Illustrated 1993

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    Hardcover 1991

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Synopsis

This is a study of how the labouring poor of nineteenth-century industrial England saw the social order of which they were a part. It attacks orthodoxies and sets up new questions by attending to a wide range of contemporary experience, from politics and work to language and art.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 462
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 21 Oct 1993
ISBN 10: 0521447976
ISBN 13: 9780521447973
Book Overview: This book shows how the labouring poor of nineteenth-century industrial England saw the social order of which they were a part.

Media Reviews
'Visions of the People is an immensely important work that opens up new avenues of historical enquiry and raises a number of critical questions that desperately need to be addressed. It will become a key point of reference for many years to come.' Social History
' ... a powerful and pathbreaking book ... one of those rare books which urges that we should look at our past in a new way.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
' ... of consuming interest for all those concerned to understand Victorian England ... a very important book.' The Times Literary Supplement
...only the obdurate will reject outright the central claim of this important book or the utility of its heuristic devices. Albion
...a powerful, path-breaking book....one of those rare books which urges that we should look at our past in a new way....Joyce's immensely stimulating book prompts a thousand enquiries. Times Higher Education Supplement
The most substantial and sustained attempt yet to go beyond the orthodoxy of class....its achievement should be welcomed and celebrated. Journal of Historical Geography
Visions of the People is provocative and sweeping...a book of the first importance. Journal of British Studies
It will be a key point of reference for years to come. Social History
Joyce describes a richly textured and deeply ambivalent working-class culture. The most significant aspect of the book is the interesting and innovative reading of diverse and varied sources... this is a book which deserves careful consideration. Journal of Interdisciplinary History
A thoughtful, closely reasoned, revisionist analysis of class as a viable definition of worker experience in Victorian and Edwardian England. Choice
What other historians have done speculatively or on a rather limited front Joyce does on a grand scale, exploring the artifacts of northern plebian culture through detailed documentation and a wide variety of contexts: work, trade unions, speech, dialect, ballad, theater, and popular perceptions of history and the the British constitution....Joyce's work demonstrates overwhelmingly both that working people shared in a wider national culture and that many aspects of that wider culture were made by working people themselves and not artificially imposed from above....Patrick Joyce deserves our gratitude for forcing readers to take seriously evidence that is too often dismissed as merely marginal and picaresque.' Jose Harris, Journal of Modern History