The Making of English Popular Culture provides a broad ranging account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century.

John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK. He has published extensively in the field of cultural studies, including ten books, the most recent being the seventh edition of Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction (2015). His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.　He is also on editorial/advisory boards in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the USA, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, the University of Henan, the University of Vienna and the University of Wuhan.

Introduction: Making Popular Culture

John Storey

1 'The Man of Penetration and the Girl of Capacity': Negotiating Power in Erotic Culture

Jenny Skipp

2 'But it's more than a game. It's an institution': Cricket, Class and Victorian Britain's Imperial Englishness

Claire Westall

3 Drivel for Dregs: Perceptions of Class, 'Race', and Gender in British Music Hall, 1850-1914

Dave Huxley and David James

4 Reading Historical Images: Class and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Wigan of Pit-Brow Women

Sarah Edge

5 Inventing the Victorian Boy: S.O. Beeton's in The Boy's Own Magazine

Jochen Petzold

6 Accept no substitutions! Advertising, Gender and 'Race' in Constructions of the Consumer in the Nineteenth Century

Allison Cavanagh

7 Liminal Seaside? Working-Class Tourism in the 19th Century

Robert Troschitz

8 Shocking Readers: The Genres of Victorian Popular Fiction, the Classes, and the Book Market

Ralf Schneider

9 Picturing Adventure: Popular Fiction, Illustration and the British Empire, 1875-1914

Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher

10 'For the benefit of old boys, young boys, odd boys generally, and even girls': The irresistible rise of the British comic, 1884-1900

Robert Shail

11 The Spectacle of Speech: Victorian Popular Lectures and Mass Print Culture

Anne-Julia Zwierlein

12 "You Ought To See my Phonograph": The visual wonder of recorded sound (1877-1900)

Elodie A Roy

13 Class and the invention of Tradition: the cases of Christmas, Football, and Folksong

John Storey

14 Capturing (not Catching) the Ripper: Constructing the Myth of Jack the Ripper in Nineteenth Century London

John Paul Green