1st Edition
The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877
By Albert D. Pionke
Copyright 2013
232 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
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Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Albert D. Pionke's book historicizes the relationship of ritual, class, and public status in Victorian England. His analysis of various discourses related to professionalization suggests that public ritual flourished during the period, especially among the burgeoning ranks of Victorian professions. As Pionke shows, magazines, court cases,... Read more
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
Biography
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).
