Contents
List of 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
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 Materalism
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