This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifto...

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Main Author:	Steedman, Carolyn (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Subjects:	Woolley, Joseph / Diaries Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1800-1815 Geschichte Working class / Great Britain / History / 19th century Working class / Great Britain / Social conditions / 19th century Soziale Situation Strumpfweber Großbritannien Nottingham (England) / Social conditions / 19th century Great Britain / History / 1800-1837 Nottinghamshire Tagebuch
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and Clifton's magistrate records, Carolyn Steedman gives us a unique and fascinating account of working-class living and loving, and getting and spending. Through Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, she challenges traditional accounts which she argues have overstated the importance of work to the working man's understanding of himself, as a creature of time, place and society. She shows instead that, for men like Woolley, law and fiction were just as critical as work in framing everyday life
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 298 pages)
ISBN:	9781107055155
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781107055155