Constructions of class/respectability
Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Wed, 31 May 1995 16:13:10 +0100
Susan Amussen referred to the paradigm or construct of 'respectability' in the
context of John Langbein's critique. I'm not sure that I fully understand
'respectability', but I would like to hear other people's perceptions in more
detail, since it has become a corner which is being fought by some historians
-- notably Michael (F.M.L. Thompson) as well as by, I believe, Caroline Conley
in her monograph on the dispensation of justice in Kent and (?) by Gertrude
Himmelfarb. What do people think?
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Dave Postles
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