The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Rose, Jonathan
Publication Date
2001
ISBN
0300088868
Publisher
Yale University Press
Binding
Paperback
Condition
Very good copy
SKU
22793
Notes
Very clean, bright and neat.
Description
Paperback. 534pp. Drawing in a wide variety of sources from school registers and library records to oral history this a survey of what, where and how the British working classes read throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Writers such as Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Hardy, John Ruskin and Henry Fielding as mentioned frequently. Other cultural aspects such as music, radio and politics are also covered. Of interest to that lay reader as well as the social, cultural or educational historian and those researching readers, reader-response theories and the history of the book.
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