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middle class: see bourgeoisie bourgeoisie , originally the name for the inhabitants of walled towns in medieval France; as artisans and craftsmen, the bourgeoisie occupied a socioeconomic position between the peasants and the landlords in the countryside.
..... Click the link for more information. . Middle Class Babbitt self-satisfied conformer to middle-class ideas and ideals. [Am. Lit: Babbitt] representative of property-owning class in early 20th century. [Br. Lit.: The Forsyte Saga] smugly complacent in his Britishness. [Br. Lit.: Our Mutual Friend] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | They have already pre-screened themselves for middle-classness by listening to Radio; they have the financial acuity to get themselves into a situation interesting enough for Money Box; they are not high-risk personalities, otherwise they would be doing something more interesting than listening to the programme in the first place; they have a sense of deferred gratification, otherwise they would just spend all their money as it came in like normal people. Although this book is centrally concerned with the way suburban writing seeks to protect the whiteness and middle-classness of the suburbs, one has to wade into the footnotes to find a reference to recent historians' discovery that the suburbs have never been as white or middleclass as often supposed. But whereas Ruskin continues to use `expression' with Evangelical connotations of sincerity and identity, and Rossetti wrestles with her creed to express her own identity, Swinburnian `expression' is a matter of imprinting a pattern with the typology available: an upper-class English male species of intensely-realized anonymity, at the zenith of its prestige, disallowed to Christina by her foreignness, femaleness, middle-classness, and genius. |
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