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As scholarly interest in popular culture has grown, more and more British and American universities have been introducing courses in popular culture, now seen as an essential aspect of historical investigation. This volume answers the need for a book focusing on England (unlike Peter Burke's
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978), and over a broad time period (unlike Barry Reay's
Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England (1985)), which will fulfil it's aim of appealing both to specialists and students coming new to the subject. Tim Harris has assembled a very strong team of contributors who will ensure a very lively and interesting collection of essays.
List of contents
CONTENTS: Contributors.- Preface.- Problematising Popular Culture; T.Harris.- Regional Cultures? Local Variations in Popular Culture during the Early Modern Period; D.Underdown.- The Gendering of Popular Culture in Early Modern England; S.Dwyer.- Amussen Literacy and Literature in Popular Culture: Reading and Writing in Historical Perspective; J. Barry.- From Reformation to Toleration: Popular Religious Cultures in England, 1540-1690; M. Ingram.- The People's Health in Georgian England; R. Porter.- Women, Work and Cultural Change in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century London; P. Seleski.- Against Innovation? Custom and Resistance in the Workplace, 1700-1850; J. Rule.- 'Tacit, Unsuspected, but still Implicit Faith': Alternative Belief in Nineteenth-Century England; B. Bushaway.- Bibliography.- Index.
