The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction Book

"[Brantlinger's] writing is admirably lucid, his knowledge impressive and his thesis a welcome reminder of the class bias that so often accompanies denunciations of popular fiction." -- Publishers Weekly"Brantlinger is adept at discussing both the fiction itself and the social environment in which that fiction was produced and disseminated. He brings to his study a thorough knowledge of traditional and contemporary scholarship, which results in an important scholarly book on Victorian fiction and its production." -- Choice"Timely, scrupulously researched, thoroughly enlightening, and steadily readable.... A work of agenda-setting historical scholarship." -- Garrett StewartFear of mass literacy stalks the pages of Patrick Brantlinger's latest book. Its central plot involves the many ways in which novels and novel reading were viewed -- especially by novelists themselves -- as both causes and symptoms of rotting minds and moral decay among nineteenth-century readers.Read More

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  • 0253212499
  • 9780253212498
  • Patrick Brantlinger
  • 1 June 1998
  • Indiana University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 264
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