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The intellectual life of the British working classes
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rose, Jonathan, 1952- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Books and reading--Great Britain--History.
- Working class.
- Working class--Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Books and reading--History--Great Britain.
- Books and reading.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (549 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Yale University Press 2010
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Now in its second edition, this landmark book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose discovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface uncovers the author's journey into labor history, and its rewarding link to intellectual history.
- Contents:
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- A Preface to a History of Audiences
- Chapter One A Desire for Singularity
- Scottish Overture I
- The Milkmaid's Iliad
- Knowledge and Power
- Literature and Dogma
- Conservative Authors and Radical Readers
- The Craftsman's Tools
- Chapter Two Mutual Improvement
- Scottish Overture II
- Self-Culture
- Proletarian Science
- How They Got On
- Chekhov in Canning Town
- A Common Culture?
- Chapter Three The Difference BetweenFact and Fiction
- Cinderella as Documentary
- Audience Participation
- Blood, Iron, and Scripture
- New Crusoes
- Pickwickian Realism
- Chapter Four A Conservative Canon
- A General Theory of Rubbish
- The People's Bard
- The Hundred Best Books
- Everyman's Library
- Catching Up
- Chapter Five Willingly to School
- A Better-Than-Nothing Institute
- Possibilities of Infinitude
- Strict but Just
- Parental Support
- Unmanly Education
- Regrets and Discontents
- Chapter Six Cultural Literacy in the Classic Slum
- Sheffield 1918
- Wagner and Hoot Gibson
- Aristotle and Dr. Stopes
- Current Affairs
- The Right to Language
- The Most Unlikely People Buy Books Now
- Chapter Seven The Welsh Miners' Libraries
- An Underground University
- Marx, Jane Eyre, Tarzan
- Decline and Fall
- Chapter Eight The Whole Contention Concerning the Workers' Educational Association
- The Ruskin Rebellion
- The Difficulty about That
- What Did the Students Want?
- The Reward
- Chapter Nine Alienation from Marxism
- Evangelical Materialism
- Have You Read Marx?
- Unethical Socialism
- Stalin Reads Thackeray
- Chapter Ten The World Unvisited
- Greyfriars' Children
- Adolescent Propaganda
- Marlborough and All That
- A Map of the World
- Building Jerusalem.
- To the West
- Recessional
- Chapter Eleven A Mongrel Library
- The Function of Penny Dreadfuls
- Poverty and Indiscrimination
- Boys' Stories for Girls
- The Dog That Was Down
- Uses and Gratifications
- Chapter Twelve What Was Leonard Bast Really Like?
- Restricting Literacy
- The Insubordination of the Clerks
- The Bridge
- By Office Boys for Office Boys
- The Better Hole
- Cultural Triage
- Chapter Thirteen Down and Out in Bloomsbury
- On the Fringe
- Where Is Bohemia?
- Before the Youth Culture
- What Went Wrong?
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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