The Cookson Story
Stefan Collini: The British Working Class, 13 December 2001
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
by Jonathan Rose.
Yale, 534 pp., £29.95, June 2001,0 300 08886 8 Show More
by Jonathan Rose.
Yale, 534 pp., £29.95, June 2001,
“... matched Shakespeare and Shaw in popularity), discursive prose writers (Carlyle and Ruskin are the constant companions of the earnest seeker after light), and the great unclassifiable, John Bunyan. The composition of this canon changed somewhat as new names established themselves, though working-class reading ... ”