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

Name: Reading Lesson The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
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ISBN: 9780253212498

ISBN-10: 0253212499

ISBN-13: 9780253212498

Edition: 1998

Authors: Patrick M. Brantlinger

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The Reading Lesson describes the many ways in which novels and novel reading were viewed, especially by novelists themselves, as both causes and symptoms of mind rot and moral decay among nineteenth-century readers.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/22/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Case of the Poisonous Book



Gothic Toxins: The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, and Caleb Williams



The Reading Monster



How Oliver Twist Learned to Read, and What He Found



Poor Jack, Poor Jane: Representing the Working Class and Women in Early and Mid-Victorian Novels



Cashing in on the Real in Thackeray and Trollope



Novel Sensations of the 1860s



The Educations of Edward Hyde and Edwin Reardon



Overbooked versus Bookless Futures in Late-Victorian Fiction


Notes


Works


Cited Index