Research Catalog

Title

The intellectual life of the British working classes / Jonathan Rose.

Author

Rose, Jonathan, 1952-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xiii, 534 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Through its novel and challenging approach to literary history, this text gains access to politics, ideology, popular culture and social relationships across two centuries of British working class experience.

Subjects

• History
• Great Britain > Intellectual life
• Books and reading > Great Britain > History
• Working class > Great Britain > Intellectual life
• Working class > Books and reading > Great Britain > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Previous ed.: 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 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 -- Mutual improvement. Scottish overture II -- Self-culture -- Proletarian science -- How they got on -- Chekhov in canning town -- A common culture? -- The difference between fact and fiction. Cinderella as documentary -- Audience participation -- Blood, iron, and scripture -- New Crusoes -- Pickwickian realism -- A conservative canon. The general theory of rubbish -- The people's bard -- The hundred best books -- Everyman's library -- Catching up -- Willingly to school. A better-than-nothing institute -- Possibilities of infinitude -- Strict but just -- Parental support -- Unmanly Education -- Regrets and discontents -- Cultural literacy in the classic slum. Sheffield -- Wagner and Hoot Gibson -- Aristotle and Dr. Stopes -- Current affairs -- The right to language --^
• The most unlikely people buy books now -- The Welsh miners' libraries. An underground university -- Marx, Jane Eyre, Tarzan -- Decline and fall -- The whole contention concerning the workers' educational association. The Ruskin Rebellion -- The difficulty about that -- What did the students want? -- The reward -- Alienation from Marxism. Evangelical materialism -- Have you read Marx? -- Unethical socialism -- Stalin reads Thackeray -- The world unvisited. Greyfriars' children -- Adolescent propaganda -- Marlborough and all that -- A map of the world -- Building Jerusalem -- To the west -- Recessional -- A mongrel library. The function of penny dreadfuls -- Poverty and indiscrimination -- Boys' stories for girls -- The dog that was down -- Uses and gratifications -- 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 --^
• Down and out in Bloomsbury. On the fringe -- Where is Bohemia? -- Before the youth culture -- What went wrong?

ISBN

• 9780300153651 (pbk.)
• 0300153651 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 520723375
• SCSB-11420933

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library