The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Praise Page Title Page Copyright 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