Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction IX
5. Part One
6. 1. The Creative Mind 3
7. 2. The Analysis of Culture 41
8. 3. Individuals and Societies 72
9. 4. Images of Society 101
10. Part Two
11. 1. Education and British Society 125
12. 2. The Growth of the Reading Public 156
13. 3. The Growth of the Popular Press 173
14. 4. The Growth of ‘Standard English’ 214
15. 5. The Social History of English Writers 230
16. 6. The Social History of Dramatic Forms 246
17. 7. Realism and the Contemporary Novel 274
18. Part Three
19. Britain in the 1960s 293
20. Book List 356
21. Index 363