tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post5585243543166683962..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Step Two in the publishing revolution... by Cally Phillips Katherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-11207738719354975182014-02-04T22:19:35.656+00:002014-02-04T22:19:35.656+00:00Even better than The Intellectuals and the Masses ...Even better than The Intellectuals and the Masses (which is great) is The intellectual life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose. Read his description of the way that the Bloomsbury highbrows kept moving the high art goal posts so that they would always be able to sneer at the cultural pretensions of self-educated clerk Leonard Bast (Howard's End) and you may (if you were snooty little me) want to curl up and die. Then take a good tablespoonful of Richard Hoggart's Uses of Literacy and you will be waving your asphidistras at Cally's perception that one man's fiction is another man's literature (or waddever) Thanks, on behalf of Herb Allingham, for the kind words. He certainly educated me<br />julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-6028603856105482752014-02-04T15:02:45.934+00:002014-02-04T15:02:45.934+00:00Ha! Everyone should read the Intellectuals and the...Ha! Everyone should read the Intellectuals and the Masses, though you'll never feel the same way about certain writers after you do! So glad that Cally is reviving Crockett. He never really went away in this household, but that was because my hill-walking dad found his books in the library and made the whole family read them, and then bought old copies and carried them about with him so that he could identify bits of the landscape on his many walking expeditions. He loved doing that sort of thing and so, I realise, do I. Crockett's adventure tales, some of them - especially the Grey Man - set very close to home for me, are magical. And readable. And yes, you have to wonder why he fell out of general favour and realise that luck does play quite a large part in these things. Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-23001590067601690702014-02-04T10:46:17.251+00:002014-02-04T10:46:17.251+00:00I haven't read it either - on the list now! Lo...I haven't read it either - on the list now! Lovely post. It happened to women in the 18th century too - more than 3 times as many women authors as men - guess who got remembered and put on The Literary List? Until Virago that is...... Good luck to the Galloway Revival!<br />Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-445393143783047302014-02-04T10:43:12.578+00:002014-02-04T10:43:12.578+00:00Great stuff, Cally. I'm a fan of John Carey al...Great stuff, Cally. I'm a fan of John Carey already but haven't yet read 'The Intellectuals and the Masses'. I'll rectify that omission now.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-53507074004559446112014-02-04T09:46:42.102+00:002014-02-04T09:46:42.102+00:00i had that chaucer in the back of me cab once. dro...i had that chaucer in the back of me cab once. drove him to canterbury. never mentioned me in the book, though. bastard.<br /><br />wonderful stuff cally. must come and see you and the team again. xxJan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-4653022381557407892014-02-04T07:49:16.656+00:002014-02-04T07:49:16.656+00:00Great post. The power of sticky-backed plastic, st...Great post. The power of sticky-backed plastic, sticky tape and a bit of glitter, eh? Now lets see you get busy with a teatowel and knock up a suitable Chaucer-like hat ... :-)<br />madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-48496022039146871212014-02-04T03:34:43.628+00:002014-02-04T03:34:43.628+00:00Terrific post, Cally. I haven't read the John ...Terrific post, Cally. I haven't read the John Carey book Catherine made you read but I know what a great iconoclast he is and shall remedy the omission as soon as I get home. Meanwhile, as a Galloway Raider myself, I find Crockett well worth finding out about. But what about WJ Hamley and 'Treseaden Hall'. Even though he must be from the posh end of the family he may be worth resurrecting. Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.com