The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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 BetweenFact 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 Materialism -- 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.

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