LEADER 04292oam 2200685 a 450 001 9910790442103321 005 20231218215856.0 010 $a1-283-53106-2 010 $a9786613843517 010 $a0-7735-8291-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773582910 035 $a(CKB)2670000000148909 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000744396 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11399094 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000744396 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10843913 035 $a(PQKB)10649378 035 $a(CEL)435999 035 $a(OCoLC)772070533 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00230214 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332229 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10577813 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL384351 035 $a(OCoLC)923235985 035 $a(DE-B1597)656165 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773582910 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/jf3hcq 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332229 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000148909 100 $a20120718d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe national album $ecollective biography and the formation of the Canadian middle class /$fRobert Lanning 210 $a[Ottawa, Ont.?] $cCarleton University Press$d1996 215 $a1 online resource (202 pages) 225 1 $aCarleton library series ;$v186 311 0 $a0-88629-288-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. The Role of Biography in Social and Historical Studies. Biography and History, People and Cultures. Historical Sociology and Collective Biography -- 2. The Victorian Context. The Progress of Canadian Culture. The Meaning of Democracy and Equality in a Developing Culture. Success. Character as a Bridge for Social Change. Samuel Smiles and the Sanctity of Individual Effort. Phrenology: Physiognomy as an Image of Social Place -- 3. The Biographers at Work. The Proper Data for the Object Lesson. Creating a Biographical Dictionary: Morgan's Method. The Basic Data of Biographical Representation. Three Representative Men -- 4. Social Mobility and Group Affiliation. Horizontal Mobility as the Retention of Generational Power. Group Affiliation and Social Participation. Shared Affiliation in Two National Organizations. Group Affiliation at the Local Level. Levels of Social Participation -- 5. Representative Distinctions Men and Women in the Collective Biographies. "Differentiation" and "Fidelity": A Cultural Analysis of Gender Representation -- 6. The Structure of Feeling in the Emerging Middle Class. Personality Characteristics of Biographical Subjects. The Emergence of a Mediating Class. The Professional Ideal and the Middle Class. Appendix. A Note on Methodology. 330 $aThis unique study draws on biographical dictionaries as a collective portrait of the emerging Canadian middle class in the last half of the nineteenth century. The works compiled by Henry James Morgan, George MacLean Rose, and William Cochrane, and published between 1862 and 1903, reveal not only the life-course patterns of "representative" Canadians, but personal and social motivations driving the selection process. The complex of occupation, mobility and opportunity, networking, the meaning of success, and contrasts between the representation of men and women, are analyzed with an eye to the "structure of feeling" that characterized Canadian culture and national consciousness in this period.The National Album is a major contribution to Canadian studies, particularly to the flourishing interest in biography and autobiography, and to the interdisciplinary field of historical sociology. 410 0$aCarleton library series ;$v186. 606 $aMiddle class$zCanada$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBiographers$zCanada 607 $aCanada$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 607 $aCanada$vBiography$vDictionaries$xHistory 607 $aCanada$vBiography$vDictionaries$xSocial aspects 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aBiographers 676 $a971/.0072 700 $aLanning$b Robert$01103210 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790442103321 996 $aThe national album$93709277 997 $aUNINA