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The reading lesson : the threat of mass literacy in nineteenth century British fiction /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 read
- 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.