1st Edition
Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth-Century England
Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Persistence and Change in Nineteenth-century Popular Culture Robert D. Storch 2. The Decline of the Oral Tradition in Popular Culture David Vincent 3. Methodism, Popular Beliefs and Village Culture in Cornwall, 1800-50 John Rule 4. ‘Please to Remember the Fifth of November’: Conflict, Solidarity and Public Order in Southern England, 1815-1900 Robert D. Storch 5. The Lancashire Wakes in the Nineteenth Century John K. Walton and Robert Poole 6. Interpreting the Festival Calendar Wakes and Friars as Carnivals Douglas A. Reid 7. Secrecy, Ritual and Folk Violence: The Opacity of the Workplace in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Clive Behagg 8. Custom, Capital and Culture in the Victorian Music Hall Peter Bailey; Notes on the Contributors; Index
Biography
Robert D. Storch
