Culture in Manchester

Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of ManchesterMike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics

Culture in Manchester comprises nine essays which provide much evidence for the view that Manchester has not been, and is not culturally in decline. . .Most of the chapters are readable and avoid the impenetrable jargon of many essays in cultural studies.

• 1. Manchester: city of culture – Mike Savage and Janet Wolff2. Calico connections: science, manufacture and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester – Janet Wolff3. Counting the coppers: John Jennison and the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens – Michael Powell and Terry Wyke4. Manufacturing the Renaissance: modern merchant princes and the Manchester Dante Society – Stephen J. Milner5. The image of a well-ordered city: nineteenth-century Manchester theatre architecture and the urban spectator – Viv Gardner6. ‘He saw the city and wept’: the Manchester and Salford Methodist mission 1910–60 – Angela Connolly7. A case of cosmopolitanism: the Manchester International Club – Bill Williams8. Culture, participation and identity in contemporary Manchester – Andrew Miles9. Class conflict and the myth of cultural ‘inclusion’ in modern Manchester – Selina ToddIndex