The reading lesson : the threat of mass literacy in nineteenth century British fiction /
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
©1998.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23195 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.