The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth Century British FictionIndiana University Press, 1998 - 254 pàgines 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. |
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... sort of ironic apotheosis at the end of the nineteenth century in the failed , suicidal novelists of Gissing's New Grub Street.18 Dickens's apparent intimacy with his readers is one extreme on a spectrum , at the other end of which lies ...
... sort of ironic apotheosis at the end of the nineteenth century in the failed , suicidal novelists of Gissing's New Grub Street.18 Dickens's apparent intimacy with his readers is one extreme on a spectrum , at the other end of which lies ...
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... sort of literary fame as the subject of a criminal biography , the sort of poisonous text that Hannah More included in " Mr. Fantom " and also that Godwin declares he read in researching his male - male version of " the tale of ...
... sort of literary fame as the subject of a criminal biography , the sort of poisonous text that Hannah More included in " Mr. Fantom " and also that Godwin declares he read in researching his male - male version of " the tale of ...
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... sort of infinite expandibility : anyone from the upper classes who pretends to represent the working class is doomed to failure , less because workers or the masses are ignorant and destruc- tive than because they are different ...
... sort of infinite expandibility : anyone from the upper classes who pretends to represent the working class is doomed to failure , less because workers or the masses are ignorant and destruc- tive than because they are different ...
Continguts
The Castle of Otranto The Monk | 25 |
The Reading Monster | 49 |
How Oliver Twist Learned to Read and What He Read | 69 |
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The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century ... Patrick Brantlinger Previsualització limitada - 1998 |
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