The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals: Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877

ISBN-13: 9781138271975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 228 str.

Albert D. Pionke

Opis

Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Pionke’s book historicizes the relationship of ritual, class and public status in Victorian England. Through analysis of magazines, court cases, law books, manuals and works by authors that include William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hughes, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Pionke’s book excavates Victorian professionals' vital ritual culture and writers’ place in the zero-sum contest for professional status.

Spis treści

List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and Citations, Introduction, 1 Education as a Rite of Privilege: Oxbridge Preprofessionalism, 2 Swearing Your Way to Sacred Status: Oath Taking in Professional Creation Ceremonies, 3 Litigious Prestige: Rituals of Law as Fact and Fiction, 4 Rituals of Election: Contesting Parliamentary Authority, 5 A Ritual Failure: The Eglinton Tournament in Context, Epilogue: Learning Professionalism for Today, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Albert D. Pionke is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA and is author of Plots of Opportunity (2004) and editor of Victorian Secrecy (2010).