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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Jonathan Rose

Explore how British workers read, debated, and built libraries, and how their own accounts challenge simple claims about schooling, popular culture, and class.

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13 parts, about 40 minutes to read.

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Author
Jonathan Rose
Parts
13 parts
Reading time
about 40 minutes
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What the summary covers

  1. A Desire for Singularity3 min
  2. Mutual Improvement3 min
  3. The Difference Between Fact and Fiction3 min
  4. A Conservative Canon3 min
  5. Willingly to School3 min
  6. Cultural Literacy in the Classic Slum4 min
  7. The Welsh Miners’ Libraries3 min
  8. The Whole Contention Concerning the Workers’ Educational Association3 min
  9. Alienation from Marxism3 min
  10. The World Unvisited3 min
  11. A Mongrel Library3 min
  12. What Was Leonard Bast Really Like?3 min
  13. Down and Out in Bloomsbury3 min

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