Popular Culture in England, c. 1500–1850

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Problematising Popular Culture

   • Tim Harris

   Pages 1-27

3. Regional Cultures? Local Variations in Popular Culture during the Early Modern Period

   • David Underdown

   Pages 28-47

4. The Gendering of Popular Culture in Early Modern England

   • Susan Dwyer Amussen

   Pages 48-68

5. Literacy and Literature in Popular Culture: Reading and Writing in Historical Perspective

   • Jonathan Barry

   Pages 69-94

6. From Reformation to Toleration: Popular Religious Cultures in England, 1540–1690

   • Martin Ingram

   Pages 95-123

7. The People’s Health in Georgian England

   • Roy Porter

   Pages 124-142

8. Women, Work and Cultural Change in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century London

   • Patty Seleski

   Pages 143-167

9. Against Innovation? Custom and Resistance in the Workplace, 1700–1850

   • John Rule

   Pages 168-188

10. ‘Tacit, Unsuspected, but still Implicit Faith’: Alternative Belief in Nineteenth-Century Rural England

    • Bob Bushaway

    Pages 189-215

11. Back Matter

    Pages 216-293

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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.

• cultural change
• culture
• early modern period
• England
• Europe
• reform
• reformation
• seventeenth century

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