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

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

Brantlinger, Patrick M.

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0253212499
ISBN13: 9780253212498
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Dec 22 1998
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

[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 Stewart

Fear 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.

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