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The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals

Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877

By: Albert D. Pionke

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The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals

Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877

By: Albert D. Pionke

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, law books, manuals, and works by authors that include William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hughes, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning demonstrate the importance of ritual in numerous professional settings. Individual chapters reconstruct the ritual cultures of pre-professionalism provided to Oxbridge undergraduates; of oath-taking in a wide range of professional creation and promotion ceremonies; of the education, promotion, and public practice of Victorian barristers; and of Victorian Parliamentary elections. A final chapter considers the consequences of rituals that fail through the lens of the Eglinton tournament. The uneasy place of Victorian writers, who were both promoters of and competitors with more established professionals, is considered throughout. Pionke's book excavates Victorian professionals' vital ritual culture, at the same time that its engagement with literary representations of the professions reconstructs writers' unique place in the zero-sum contest for professional status.

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1317017374

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9781317017370

Teaching Later British Literature

A Thematic Approach

By: Albert D. Pionke

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Teaching Later British Literature

A Thematic Approach

By: Albert D. Pionke

Designed for both first-time teachers of survey courses in later British literature and more experienced instructors seeking a new way to approach familiar material, ''Teaching Later British Literature' seeks to recapture the interconnectedness within and among Romantic, Victorian and Modern literature. Focusing on some of the defining historical, intellectual and artistic preoccupations that individual works explore in common with their literary peers, the book also invites teachers to help their students to rethink the criteria by which periods are defined and to reconceive the relationship between texts written within these periods. 'Teaching Later British Literature' is suitable for reading alongside any of the anthologies used in courses that survey the second half of British literature—from the advanced high school classroom to the lower-division university lecture hall—and seeks to complement their already robust content by offering teachers a synthetic and highly adaptable framework for guiding students through British literary history from the 1780s through the 1940s.

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Anthem Press

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1783089350

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Plots of Opportunity

Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England

By: Albert D. Pionke

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Plots of Opportunity

Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England

By: Albert D. Pionke

After surveying England's evolving theories of representative politics and individual and collective secretive practices, Pionke traces the intersection of democracy and secrecy through a series of case histories. Using works by Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Colins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, John Henry Newman, and others, along with periodicals, histoires, and parliamentary documents of the period, he shows the rhetorical prominence of groups such as the Freemasons, the Thugs, the Carbonari, the Fenians, and the Jesuits in Victorian democratic discourse. --book cover.

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Ohio State University Press

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0814209483

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Plots of Opportunity

Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England

By: Albert D. Pionke

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Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England

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The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals

The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals

Teaching Later British Literature

Teaching Later British Literature

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Plots of Opportunity

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