The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth Century British FictionIndiana University Press, 1998 - 254 Seiten 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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The Castle of Otranto The Monk | 25 |
The Reading Monster | 49 |
How Oliver Twist Learned to Read and What He Read | 69 |
Urheberrecht | |
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The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century ... Patrick Brantlinger Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alton Ambrosio Biffen bourgeois Braddon Brontë Caleb Williams characters Chartist Coleridge Collins crime criminal critics declares detective Dickens Dickens's discourse double Eliot Eustace Diamonds express father Felix Felix Holt Frankenstein French George Gissing Gissing's Gothic romances Grub Street ignorant illiteracy industrial novels Jack Sheppard Jane Jane Eyre Jekyll and Hyde Jekyll's journals Lady Audley's Secret late-Victorian least literate literature Lizzie London Martineau Mary mass culture mass literacy Mayhew metaphor middle-class modern Monk Monster moral moreover Morris Morris's Mudie's murder mystery narrative narrator Newgate novels newspaper novelists novels and novel-reading Oliver Twist Otranto partly penny perhaps poisonous political popular published readers readership reading public realistic fiction realistic novel reality Reardon Revolution rhetoric Ryecroft says seems sensation fiction sensation novels sense sexual social society sort Stevenson story suggests superstition Thackeray Thackeray's tion Trollope ultimate Vanity Fair Victorian vulgarity workers working-class
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