{"product_id":"the-reading-lesson-the-threat-of-mass-literacy-in-nineteenth-century-british-fiction-0253212499","title":"The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0253212499\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brantlinger, Patrick M.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\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\"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\"Timely, scrupulously researched, thoroughly enlightening, and steadily readable. . . . A work of agenda-setting historical scholarship.\" -Garrett StewartFear 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":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51702206759200,"sku":"NEW0253212499","price":23.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71Yx1U6ZEPL.jpg?v=1779387946","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-reading-lesson-the-threat-of-mass-literacy-in-nineteenth-century-british-fiction-0253212499","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}