This important book provides a comparative study of the growth and
impact of mass literacy across Europe between 1750 and 1950. The
volume outlines the main features of the comparative growth of
literacy, and relates them to the later growth of electronic media.
It assesses the ways in which mass literacy has transformed ways of
living and thinking, by exploring broader social and cultural
issues such as gender, age, consciousness of time and space, and
our relationship with the natural world.
Vincent begins by considering the evolution of methods of
teaching and learning across the centuries, and examines the
relationship between literacy and economic growth, including the
changing function of literacy in the workplace. He discusses the
changing pattern of demand for and provision of reading matter, as
well as the changing relationship between oral and written modes of
generating and reproducing both information and fantasy. In later
chapters, Vincent analyses the history of popular writing, and the
relationship between print, language and national identity. The
impact of literacy on democracy and political mobilization, and on
the making of censorship and propaganda, is also discussed in this
lively and accessible study.
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