![]() ![]() Jonathan Rose in his path-breaking thesis entitled The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes rescued the discipline of intellectual history from alleged criticism regarding elitism. ![]() But what record do we have of “common readers,” such as freed men after the American Civil War, or immigrants in Australia, or the British working classes?” It is relatively easy to recover the reading experiences of professional intellectuals: authors, literary critics, professors, and clergymen extensively documented their responses to books. It proposes to enter the minds of ordinary readers in history, to disco ver what they read and how they read it. “This book addresses a question which, until recently, was considered unanswerable. Margaret Oliphant, whose writings comprised the subject of his M.Phil thesis. ![]() Shantanu Majee is currently pursuing his PhD on ‘Intellectual Labour and Victorian Women’ at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. ![]()
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