The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of working-class life, with special reference to publications and entertainments

Front Cover
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Flyleaf-1
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Half-title
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By the same Author
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Title Page
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Printer's imprint
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Preface
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Quotations
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Part I: An 'Older' Order
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a) Questions of Approach
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b) A Rough Definition
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a) An Oral Tradition: Resistance and Adaptation: a formal way of life
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b) 'There's No Place Like Home'
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c) Mother
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d) Father
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e) The Neighbourhood
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a) 'Them': 'Self-Respect'
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b) 'Us'--the Best and the Worst of It
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c) 'Putting up with things': 'Living and Letting Live'
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a) The Personal and the Concrete
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b) 'Primary Religion'
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c) Illustrations from Popular Art--"Peg's Paper"
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a) The Immediate, the Present, the Cheerful: Fate and Luck
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b) 'The Biggest Aspidistra in the World': Excursions into the 'Baroque'
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c) Illustrations from Popular Art--Club Singing
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Part II: Yielding Place to New
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a) Introductory
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b) Tolerance and Freedom
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c) 'Everybody's Doing It Now' or 'The Gang's All Here'
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d) Living in the Present and 'Progressivism'
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e) Indifferentism: 'Personalisation' and 'Fragmentation'
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a) The Producers
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b) The Process Illustrated: (i) Weekly Family Magazines
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c) The Process Illustrated: (ii) Commercial Popular Songs
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d) The Results
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a) The Juke-Box Boys
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b) The 'Spicy' Magazines
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c) Sex-and-Violence Novels
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a) Scepticism to Cynicism
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b) Some Allegorical Figures
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a) Scholarship Boy
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b) The Place of Culture: A Nostalgia for Ideals
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a) Resilience
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b) Summary of Present Tendencies in Mass Culture
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Notes and References
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Bibliography
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Index
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Literary Criticism (Other Publications)
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Flyleaf-2
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