Literacy and Popular Culture

England, 1750-1914

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Paperback | 1 November 1993

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In 1750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by 1914 England, together with handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every interstice of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people.

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'David Vincent's history of the teaching of reading and writing, and its cultural implications, shows how, once you take the winning of literacy as a serious issue, it opens up new perspectives on a whole series of major themes. His topics range from family relationships and social mobility, through politics and election broadsides, to the cultural influences of literacy on the working-class generation before that of Richard Hoggart.' Times Literary Supplement 'This is an ambitious, scholarly and fascinating book of interest not only to specialists and historians but also to a wider public.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies Language & Linguistics Linguistics Literacy Education

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List of figures and tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Family	p. 21
Family literacy	p. 22
The status of literacy	p. 29
The post	p. 32
Conclusion	p. 49
Education	p. 53
The domestic curriculum	p. 54
Becoming literate	p. 66
Official schooling	p. 73
Conclusion	p. 92
Work	p. 95
Occupational literacy	p. 96
Occupational learning	p. 104
Occupational recruitment	p. 119
Labour relations	p. 134
Conclusion	p. 153
The natural world	p. 156
Knowledge	p. 159
Authority	p. 171
Time	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 193
Imagination	p. 196
Transition	p. 197
Commercialisation	p. 210
Conclusion	p. 226
Politics	p. 228
The State	p. 229
The press	p. 241
The earnest worker	p. 258
Conclusion	p. 268
Literacy and its uses	p. 270
Marriage register sample	p. 281
Literacy networks	p. 283
Notes	p. 286
Bibliography	p. 328
Index	p. 356
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