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The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
by Brantlinger, Patrick M.
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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.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Brantlinger, Patrick M.
- ISBN: 9780253212498
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.22 x 0.78
- Number Of Pages: 264
- Publication Year: 1998