One of the first countries where this took place was Great Britain. Jonathan Rose's The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes uses much autobiographical material to tell us how the workers experienced their quest into written knowledge, roughly from to It is a historians' history, packed with information and references/5(50). His The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize and the British Council Prize. He is co-editor of Book History, which won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for the Best New Journal of /5. · Temporary Lending Library Central Library New Bridge Street Newcastle upon Tyne (Source: flickr) Jonathan Rose’s inquiry covers a remarkable range of demanding and urgent questions with concern and insight. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, now in its second edition*, is notable for its discussion of how writers and academics seek to elevate themselves above Estimated Reading Time: 10 mins.
Jonathan Rose (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale UP, ). Winner of the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize, the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the British Council Prize, the SHARP Book History Prize, the. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Using innovative research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes tracks the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. It offers a new method for cultural historians--an "audience history" that recovers the responses of readers.
While Rose’s book springs from a important tradition of working-class history, this does not mean that the Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes does not stand on its own – it does, most assuredly so. It is, in fact, a brilliantly illuminating analysis of the impulses that shaped working-class reading culture, from sheer autodidactism, early education reform, revolutions in printing, working men’s clubs, the settlement movement, theatre and music hall, the Workers. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. Jonathan Rose. pp, Yale, £ In John Carey, Merton Professor of English at Oxford University, was invited to give the TS Eliot. Temporary Lending Library Central Library New Bridge Street Newcastle upon Tyne (Source: flickr) Jonathan Rose’s inquiry covers a remarkable range of demanding and urgent questions with concern and insight. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, now in its second edition*, is notable for its discussion of how writers and academics seek to elevate themselves above the public with unnecessary and exclusionist ‘Marxist jargon, modernist obscurantism, or postmodern.
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