I say "tends to" because some thematic units are more cohesive than others.
Rather, he takes the pulse of several manifestations of working-class intellectual life across the period-including the autodidact's "Desire for Singularity" and "Mutual Improvement" (both early chapter headings), the impact of schools, of the WEA, and even of Bohemia within each of these thematic units he tends to follow a chronological trajectory. His approach, however, is not consistently chronological. How well, then, does The Intellectual Life, as the flagship for Rose's wider interests, sail?Īlthough the book spans a period from the Lollards to New Labour, Rose primarily examines the autodidact tradition from around the time of the Reform Bill up to the end of the Second World War. As Rose was a founding member of SHARP, and is an editor of the organization's scholarly journal, Book History, it is not surprising that his book is an experiment in the creation of a viable framework for a way of seeing (in one content area) that mirrors the aspirations of SHARP (in a broad array of content areas). Although the focus of the praise is mostly on Rose's use of a vast and widely-untapped field of primary-source material, it is the structural organization of that material, using the "framing" model, that exercises Rose the most. $39.95 cloth.Ī more auspicious birth for a text can hardly be imagined: besides uniformly glowing reviews from all the major newspapers, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes garnered two awards: the SHARP Book History Prize and the Longman/History Today Book-of-the-Year 2002 Award. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001 Pp. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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