Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City Book

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Social history, cultural studies and the cad	1
1	The Victorian middle class and the problem of leisure	13
2	A role analysis of working-class respectability	30
3	Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday: Comic art in the 1880s	47
4	Business and good fellowship in the London music hall	80
5	Champagne Charlie and the music hall swell song	101
6	Music hall and the knowingness of popular culture	128
7	The Victorian barmaid as cultural prototype	151
8	Musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892-1914	175
9	Breaking the sound barrier	194
	Notes	212
	Index	254