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The intellectual life of the British working classes

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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.
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] Yale University Press 2001
Language Note:
English
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Chapter One A Desire for Singularity 12
Scottish Overture I 16 The Milkmaid's Iliad 18
Knowledge and Power 20 Literature and Dogma 29
Conservative Authors and Radical Readers 39
The Craftsman's Tools 48
Chapter Two Mutual Improvement 58
Scottish Overture II 59 Self-Culture 62
Proletarian Science 70 How They Got On 73
Chekhov in Canning Town 79 A Common Culture? 83
Chapter Three The Difference Between Fact and Fiction 92
Cinderella as Documentary 93 Audience Participation 98
Blood, Iron, and Scripture 102 New Crusoes 106
Pickwickian Realism 111
Chapter Four A Conservative Canon 116
A General Theory of Rubbish 120 The People's Bard 122
The Hundred Best Books 125 Everyman's Library 131
Catching Up 136
Chapter Five Willingly to School 146
A Better-Than-Nothing Institute 151
Possibilities of Infinitude 156 Strict but Just 168
Parental Support 172 Unmanly Education 177
Regrets and Discontents 182
Chapter Six Cultural Literacy in the Classic Slum 187
Sheffield 1918 190 Wagner and Hoot Gibson 196
Aristotle and Dr. Stopes 206 Current Affairs 220
The Right to Language 223
The Most Unlikely People Buy Books Now 230
Chapter Seven The Welsh Miners' Libraries 237
An Underground University 238
Marx, Jane Eyre, Tarzan 244
Decline and Fall 253
Chapter Eight The Whole Contention Concerning the Workers'
Educational Association 256
The Ruskin Rebellion 258 The Difficultyabout That 265
What Did the Students Want? 282 The Reward 292
Chapter Nine Alienation from Marxism 298
Evangelical Materalism 300 Have You Read Marx? 305
Unethical Socialism 307 Stalin Reads Thackeray 315
Chapter Ten The World Unvisited 321
Greyfriars' Children 322 Adolescent Propaganda 331
Marlborough and All That 335 A Map of the World 341
Building Jerusalem 350 To the West 353
Recessional 362
Chapter Eleven A Mongrel Library 365
The Function of Penny Dreadfuls 367
Poverty and Indiscrimination 371
Boys' Stories for Girls 379
The Dog That Was Down 381 Uses and Gratifications 386
Chapter Twelve What Was Leonard Bast Really Like? 393
Restricting Literacy 394
The Insubordination of the Clerks 401 The Bridge 413
By Office Boys for Office Boys 417 The Better Hole 421
Cultural Triage 431
Chapter Thirteen Down and Out in Bloomsbury 439
On the Fringe 439 Where is Bohemia? 447
Before the Youth Culture 453 What Went Wrong? 455
Notes 465
Index 518.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
ISBN:
0-300-14835-6

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