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

by Patrick Brantlinger

Book Overview

" 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253212499
• ISBN13: 9780253212498
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher