TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Christopher
TI  - An Artisan Intellectual: James Carter and the Rise of Modern Britain, 1792-1853 
SN  - 9780807163801
AV  - DA536.C35 F47 2016
U1  - 941.07 22
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Baton Rouge
PB  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - Carter, James,
KW  - Tailors
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Artisans
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - Social change
KW  - History
KW  - Industrial revolution
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - includes bibliography,index; Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index; Introduction: James Carter's Britain, 1792-1853 -- The Tailors' Industrial Revolution -- Literacy and the Learned Tailor -- The Countryman in London -- The City in the Country -- The Man and the Mass -- Conclusion: "Great Men" and the Making of Modern Britain
N2  - "In An Artisan Intellectual, Christopher Ferguson examines the life and ideas of English tailor and writer James Carter, one of countless and largely anonymous citizens whose lives dramatically transformed during Britain's long march to modernity. Carter began his working life at age thirteen as an apprentice and continued to work as a tailor throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, first in Colchester and then in London. As the Industrial Revolution brought innovations to every aspect of British life, Carter took advantage of opportunities to push against the boundaries of his working-class background. He supplemented his income through his writing, publishing often unsigned books, articles, and poems on subjects as diverse as religion, death, nature, aesthetics, and theories of civilization. Carter's words give us a fascinating window into the revolutionary forces that upended the world of ordinary citizens in this era and demonstrate how the changes in daily life impacted personal experiences and intellectual pursuits as well as labor practices and living and working environments. Ferguson deftly explores a forgotten tailor's varied responses to the many transformations that produced the world's first modern society"--From publisher's website
ER  -