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Consuming Sympathies: Working-Class Cultural Capital in Several Nineteenth-Century English Texts

McCullough, Aaron Wayne

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2005, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
The nineteenth-century English texts I examine in the following chapters consistently explore the problem of working-class consumption. But as they do so, they explicitly link the represented consumer with bourgeois taste. The consumer community thus created interacts according to the discourse of sympathy. And sympathy circulates according to what Pierre Bourdieu has called the economy of symbolic goods. The working-class individual, in order to become “sympathetic,” must enter the capitalist economy as productive hand and consumer homme. Through such representations, these texts devalue what has historically been seen as the precondition of working-class identity, involvement with the public sphere.
Dianne Sadoff (Advisor)
82 p.

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  • McCullough, A. W. (2005). Consuming Sympathies: Working-Class Cultural Capital in Several Nineteenth-Century English Texts [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1134142393

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McCullough, Aaron. Consuming Sympathies: Working-Class Cultural Capital in Several Nineteenth-Century English Texts. 2005. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1134142393.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McCullough, Aaron. "Consuming Sympathies: Working-Class Cultural Capital in Several Nineteenth-Century English Texts." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1134142393

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)