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,
“... Reading may not make the world go round but it can make it go away, for a while. If one’s world is dirty, poor, oppressive and unfair, then that may be no small service. Books furnish the mind in a form that the bailiffs cannot repossess. If we could recover the reading practices of past generations, we would be in touch with an experience that was at once intimate and formative, on a par with, even part of, the history of love ... ”