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The reading lesson : the threat of mass literacy in nineteenth-century British fiction
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- ISBN: 0253212499 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0253334543 (cloth : alk. paper)
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245 p. ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1998.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-246) and index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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The Reading Lesson : The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
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The Reading Lesson : The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction: The Case of the Poisonous Book | |
| 2 | Gothic Toxins: The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, and Caleb Williams | |
| 3 | The Reading Monster | |
| 4 | How Oliver Twist Learned to Read, and What He Found | |
| 5 | Poor Jack, Poor Jane: Representing the Working Class and Women in Early and Mid-Victorian Novels | |
| 6 | Cashing in on the Real in Thackeray and Trollope | |
| 7 | Novel Sensations of the 1860s | |
| 8 | The Educations of Edward Hyde and Edwin Reardon | |
| 9 | Overbooked versus Bookless Futures in Late-Victorian Fiction | |
| Notes | ||
| Works | ||
| Cited Index |
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