Author : R. K. Webb
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 1911
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780231892292
Begins with an assessment of the literacy and the types of reading undertaken by the British working class from 1790-1848. Also presents a look at the challenge this literacy presented for the upper classes.
Author : Henry Weisser
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Chartism
ISBN : 9780874717211
Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.
Author : David Silbey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1134269757
This book examines what motivated the ordinary British man to go to France in 1914, especially in the early years when Britain relied on the voluntary system to fill the ranks.
Author : J F C Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135031215
Originally published in 1961, the book charts the dynamics of successive phases of the adult education movement and shows the social origin and development of the ideas and attitudes of those involved with it.
Author : Ying Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135860327
This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes. The book also maps the relationship between two trends: the early nineteenth-century efflorescence of published working-class autobiographies (in which working men construct their identities for a broad readership); and a contemporaneous surge of public interest in "the lower orders" that finds reflection in the depiction of working-class characters in popular novels by middle-class authors. The book mimics this point of convergence by pairing three working-class autobiographies with three middle-class novels. Each chapter focuses on a particular type of work: domestic service, manual (not artisanal) labour, and literary labour (and the opportunities it offers for social advancement). Ying considers the specific ways in which classed and gendered consciousness emerges autobiographically and its significance in the writing of working-class subjectivity for public consumption. Then mainstream novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Kingsley are re-read from the perspective of these autobiographical pressure points.
Author : Peter Scheckner
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Chartism
ISBN : 9780838633458
Chartist poetry was written by and for workers. In contrast with the portrayal of workers by mainstream Victorian writers, Chartist verse is intellectual, complex, and socially conscious and reflects an international outlook.
Author : Denis Lawton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415669901
It is often argued that education is concerned with the transmission of middle-class values and that this explains the relative educational failure of the working class. Consequently, distinctive culture needs a different kind of education. This volume examines this claim and the wider question of culture in British society. It analyses cultural differences from a social historical viewpoint and considers the views of those applying the sociology of knowledge to educational problems. The author recognizes the pervasive sub-cultural differences in British society but maintains that education should ideally transmit knowledge which is relatively class-free. Curriculum is defined as a selection from the culture of a society and this selection should be appropriate for all children. The proposed solution is a common culture curriculum and the author discusses three schools which are attempting to put the theory of such curriculum into practice. This study is an incisive analysis of the relationships between class, education and culture and also a clear exposition of the issues and pressures in developing a common culture curriculum.
Author : Ariane Schnepf
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783039109685
In their struggle for universal suffrage, the Chartists adapted language to further their cause. Adopting the prevailing keywords of the time and reformulating them within their own cultural environment, the Chartists defined and redefined their own political identity and interpreted the situation they lived in. This book is a case study of Chartism as an example of how radical political movements present themselves in language and how they appear in networks of meaning. Chartist vocabulary and keywords are studied in their historical context and decoded according to political, social and cultural significance. Set in constitutional politics of the time, the Chartist network of keywords includes allusions to a radical past and reaches out into an imaginary future of a liberal market economy and social policy. The three main concerns in the Chartist struggle were the individual, Britain as a nation and the influence of political movements abroad.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3554 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136628088
Mini-set G: Higher and Adult Education re-issues 11 volumes originally published between 1974 and 1992. They discuss and analyze adult education from both theoretical and practical standpoints and look at the challenges facing adult education during the 1970s and 80s as well as examining the history of higher & adult education in the UK. The mini-set includes one volume which although previously available with another publisher (and out of print for some years) is now available for the first time from Routledge.
