The Reading Lesson - The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Paperback)

"[Brantlinger's] writing is admirably lucid, his knowledgeimpressive and his thesis a welcome reminder of the class bias that so oftenaccompanies denunciations of popular fiction." -- PublishersWeekly

"Brantlinger is adept at discussing both the fiction itselfand the social environment in which that fiction was produced and disseminated. Hebrings to his study a thorough knowledge of traditional and contemporaryscholarship, which results in an important scholarly book on Victorian fiction andits production." -- Choice

"Timely, scrupulously researched, thoroughly enlightening, and steadily readable.... A work of agenda-settinghistorical scholarship." -- Garrett Stewart

Fear of massliteracy stalks the pages of Patrick Brantlinger's latest book. Its central plotinvolves the many ways in which novels and novel reading were viewed -- especiallyby novelists themselves -- as both causes and symptoms of rotting minds and moraldecay among nineteenth-century readers.

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