Making of English Popular Culture

John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK. He has published extensively in the field of cultural studies, including ten books, the most recent being the seventh edition of Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction (2015). His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.　He is also on editorial/advisory boards in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the USA, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, the University of Henan, the University of Vienna and the University of Wuhan.

• Introduction: Making Popular Culture John Storey1 ‘The Man of Penetration and the Girl of Capacity’: Negotiating Power in Erotic Culture Jenny Skipp2 ‘But it’s more than a game. It’s an institution’: Cricket, Class and Victorian Britain’s Imperial EnglishnessClaire Westall3 Drivel for Dregs: Perceptions of Class, ‘Race’, and Gender in British Music Hall, 1850-1914Dave Huxley and David James4 Reading Historical Images: Class and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Wigan of Pit-Brow WomenSarah Edge5 Inventing the Victorian Boy: S.O. Beeton’s in The Boy’s Own Magazine Jochen Petzold6 Accept no substitutions! Advertising, Gender and ‘Race’ in Constructions of the Consumer in the Nineteenth CenturyAllison Cavanagh7 Liminal Seaside? Working-Class Tourism in the 19th CenturyRobert Troschitz8 Shocking Readers: The Genres of Victorian Popular Fiction, the Classes, and the Book MarketRalf Schneider9 Picturing Adventure: Popular Fiction, Illustration and the British Empire, 1875-1914Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher 10 ‘For the benefit of old boys, young boys, odd boys generally, and even girls’: The irresistible rise of the British comic, 1884-1900Robert Shail11 The Spectacle of Speech: Victorian Popular Lectures and Mass Print CultureAnne-Julia Zwierlein12 "You Ought To See my Phonograph": The visual wonder of recorded sound (1877-1900)Elodie A Roy13 Class and the invention of Tradition: the cases of Christmas, Football, and FolksongJohn Storey14 Capturing (not Catching) the Ripper: Constructing the Myth of Jack the Ripper in Nineteenth Century LondonJohn Paul Green

"The Making of English Popular Culture explores the complex dynamics that characterised the emergence of popular culture in the 19th century. With 14 articles on a vast range of popular cultural practices and an introduction that provides an up-to-date theoretical framework, Storey once again succeeds in presenting a fascinating book for academics, students and the general public alike."Thomas Kühn, Chair of British Cultural Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, TU Dresden"From music hall to seaside holidays, from boys’ comics to the phonograph: this book offers a series of fascinating and wide-ranging essays on the pre-history of our popular culture. In the best tradition of cultural studies, it is historically grounded and richly detailed but also full of contemporary political and cultural resonances." Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University "It would be hard to do justice to a book of this breadth and depth in just a few words but it represents and excellent and wide-ranging collection of essays which result in a volume of great coherence. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the historical origins of an impressive range of popular cultural forms in Britain stemming from the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. It also responds in an admirable way to Stuart Hall’s imperative to ‘always historicize’."David Walton, President of the Iberian Association of Cultural Studies and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Murcia