Jolly Jack and the Preacher
Patrick Parrinder, 20 April 1989
A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain between the Wars
by D.L. LeMahieu.
Oxford, 396 pp., £35, June 1988,0 19 820137 0 Show More
by D.L. LeMahieu.
Oxford, 396 pp., £35, June 1988,
“... precedent in appropriating a cultural epoch under the name of a single artist. Yet, as D.L. LeMahieu points out, the great majority of their contemporaries had never heard of, still less read, these totemistic figures. A Culture for Democracy is concerned to argue that there was a genuinely common culture in mid-20th-century Britain, a culture which ... ”