The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British FictionIndiana University Press, 1998 M12 22 - 254 pages "[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 |
Contents
The Castle of Otranto The Monk | 25 |
The Reading Monster | 49 |
How Oliver Twist Learned to Read and What He Read | 69 |
Representing the Working Class | 93 |
Cashing in on the Real in Thackeray and Trollope | 121 |
Novel Sensations of the 1860s | 142 |
The Educations of Edward Hyde and Edwin Reardon | 166 |
Overbooked versus Bookless Futures in LateVictorian Fiction | 192 |
Notes | 213 |
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