Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals
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Author_Albert D. Pionke
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Circuit Court
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eglinton
Eglinton Castle
Eglinton Tournament
Election Petitions
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Eustace Diamonds
Evidence Amendment Acts
farm
George Walker
junior
King Edward III
King's Champion
King’s Champion
Lady Mason
legal profession rituals
nineteenth-century England
Nomination Day
orley
Orley Farm
Oxbridge tradition studies
parliamentary election practices
professional identity formation
Professional Ritual
Promissory Oath
queen's
ritual and class in Victorian professions
Ritual Failure
Senior Proctor
status
Tom Brown
tournament
Treby Magna
Trollope's Critique
Trollope’s Critique
University Ritual
University Sermon
Verdant Green
Victorian Professionals
Victorian social hierarchy
Wine Fund
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138271975
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Albert D. Pionke is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA and is author of Plots of Opportunity (2004) and editor of Victorian Secrecy (2010).
