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

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

Patrick Brantlinger

264 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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