{"product_id":"the-reading-lesson-the-threat-of-mass-literacy-in-nineteenth-century-british-fiction-9780253212498","title":"The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patrick M. Brantlinger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Brantlinger's] writing is admirably lucid, his knowledge impressive and his thesis a welcome reminder of the class bias that so often accompanies denunciations of popular fiction.\" --Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brantlinger is adept at discussing both the fiction itself and the social environment in which that fiction was produced and disseminated. He brings to his study a thorough knowledge of traditional and contemporary scholarship, which results in an important scholarly book on Victorian fiction and its production.\" --Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Timely, scrupulously researched, thoroughly enlightening, and steadily readable. . . . A work of agenda-setting historical scholarship.\" --Garrett Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFear of mass literacy stalks the pages of Patrick Brantlinger's latest book. Its central plot involves the many ways in which novels and novel reading were viewed--especially by novelists themselves--as both causes and symptoms of rotting minds and moral decay among nineteenth-century readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614605590679,"sku":"9780253212498","price":2394.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780253212498.webp?v=1775094912","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-reading-lesson-the-threat-of-mass-literacy-in-nineteenth-century-british-fiction-9780253212498","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}