Literature by the Working Class
Title | Literature by the Working Class PDF eBook |
Author | Cassandra Falke |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781604978452 |
Viewing all of these stories together, Falke captures the richness of working-class culture, the bravery of these authors' persistence, and the fecundity of their literary imaginations. Literature by the Working Class proposes a way to read working-class autobiographies that attends to both the socio-historical influences on their composition and their value as individual literary works. Although social historians, reading historians, and historians of rhetoric have recognized the significance of working-class autobiography to the early nineteenth century, providing broad overviews of the genre, very little work has been done to read these works as literature. Part of this negligence arises for the style of these autobiographies. They reject notions of autonomous selfhood and linear self-creation that characterize other Romantic period autobiographical works.
Autobiography in Early Modern England
Title | Autobiography in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Smyth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2010-08-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521761727 |
Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
British Autobiographies
Title | British Autobiographies PDF eBook |
Author | William Matthews |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 390 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0520315227 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
A British Picture
Title | A British Picture PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Russell |
Publisher | Southbank Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | 9781904915324 |
With a foreword by Melvyn Bragg. The updated autobiography of Britain's most controversial film director. Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of interconnected episodes: his 30s childhood in Southampton, his first sexual experience (watching Disney's Pinocchio), his schooldays at the Nautical College, Pangbourne and early careers in the Merchant Marines and the Royal Air Force. Full of marvellously funny anecdotes and fascinating insights, this is a remarkable autobiography.
The Lost World of British Communism
Title | The Lost World of British Communism PDF eBook |
Author | Raphael Samuel |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-01-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1784786381 |
A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the 1940s. Samuel conjures up the era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, brilliantly bringing to life an age in which the Communist Party enjoyed huge prestige as a bulwark for the struggles against fascism and colonialism.
British Autobiographies
Title | British Autobiographies PDF eBook |
Author | William Matthews |
Publisher | Berkeley : University of California Press |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
This compilation is a list of British autobiographies published or written before 1951, the publication information of the text, and a brief general synopsis of each autobiography.
British Autobiographies
Title | British Autobiographies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Total Pages | 390 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0520315219 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.