The intellectual life of the British working classes /

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This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they kn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rose, Jonathan, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
Edición:Third edition.
Temas:
Working class > Books and reading > Great Britain > History.
Working class > Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Books and reading > Great Britain > History.
Livres et lecture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
Books and reading.
Intellectual life.
Working class > Books and reading.
Working class > Intellectual life.
Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover page
  • Praise
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction to the Third Edition
  • 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 Between Fact 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
  • 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.

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