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Crashing the Party: A Working Class Perspective on the Ivory Tower
This study explored the experience of having a working class background and an earned doctorate as part of a research course using phenomenological methods. Findings revealed a âworking class way of looking at the worldâ that colors the meaning of the experience of graduate school and oneâs professional life
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Man of Letters, Literary Lady, Journalist or Reporter?
The enormous changes wrought in the British newspaper industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a revolution in newspaper reading habits, financing and influence, all aspects of which have been well-documented by historians of the press. But what of the contributor, particularly the freelance whose millions of words formed, mostly anonymously, the content of the new mass market press? How did writers negotiate changes in the literary marketplace during this time as editors demanded more ânewsâ and less in the way of whimsical paragraphing, and sketches, the traditional newspaper output of the professional man, or woman, of letters? Through the study of memoirs, correspondence and the fictional output of contributors to the press during this time, it is possible to discern the often fraught relations between writers and their most lucrative market