The intellectual life of the British working classes / Jonathan Rose.
The intellectual life of the British working classes / Jonathan Rose.
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New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2001.
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N028.90941/3
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English
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ix, 534 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. A Desire for Singularity -- Ch. 2. Mutual Improvement -- Ch. 3. The Difference Between Fact and Fiction -- Ch. 4. A Conservative Canon -- Ch. 5. Willingly to School -- Ch. 6. Cultural Literacy in the Classic Slum -- Ch. 7. The Welsh Miners' Libraries -- Ch. 8. The Whole Contention Concerning...
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New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2001.
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Connecticut
Date Published
c2001.
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"Which books did the British working classes read - and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their classroom education, as they experienced it?...
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The intellectual life of the British working classes / Jonathan Rose.
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"Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-517) and index.
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N028.90941/3
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74VvQBajAblM
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0300098081 (pbk.) :
9780300088861
0300088868
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028.90941
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991014661789702626
