« Appartenir aux classes populaires » : L’exemple du pub dans l’Angleterre victorienne

In the Victorian period, the public house gradually replaced the former beer shops and gin palaces. At the same time the middle classes began to turn away from the pub, which they did not consider respectable enough, and which therefore became an almost exclusively lower-class institution. Neverthel...

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Main Author: Isabelle Cases
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2008-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/7907
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description In the Victorian period, the public house gradually replaced the former beer shops and gin palaces. At the same time the middle classes began to turn away from the pub, which they did not consider respectable enough, and which therefore became an almost exclusively lower-class institution. Nevertheless segregation and a certain hierarchy did not disappear from the pub, the architecture of which very often perpetuated a very complex social stratification. Though popular groups developed in many ways a strong sense of belonging in their local pub, a lot of people found themselves caught up in a complex commercial, social and moral structure, which they did not always perfectly understand or control.
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« Appartenir aux classes populaires » : L’exemple du pub dans l’Angleterre victorienne
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title « Appartenir aux classes populaires » : L’exemple du pub dans l’Angleterre victorienne
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title_full_unstemmed « Appartenir aux classes populaires » : L’exemple du pub dans l’Angleterre victorienne
title_short « Appartenir aux classes populaires » : L’exemple du pub dans l’Angleterre victorienne
title_sort appartenir aux classes populaires l exemple du pub dans l angleterre victorienne
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