The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 |
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A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 Richard Daniel Altick. Introduction I. This volume is an attempt to study , from the historian's viewpoint , the place of reading in an industrial and increasingly democratic society ...
A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 Richard Daniel Altick. Introduction I. This volume is an attempt to study , from the historian's viewpoint , the place of reading in an industrial and increasingly democratic society ...
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... reading by such means is relatively easy . To account for it , and to fix it against the panoramic background of nineteenth- century English history , is a more complex task . For the mass reading public had its roots deep in the total ...
... reading by such means is relatively easy . To account for it , and to fix it against the panoramic background of nineteenth- century English history , is a more complex task . For the mass reading public had its roots deep in the total ...
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... mass reading public developed in nine- teenth - century England against a background of profound social change ... reading public was drawn there- fore became larger and larger . At the same time , the class struc- ture and the ...
... mass reading public developed in nine- teenth - century England against a background of profound social change ... reading public was drawn there- fore became larger and larger . At the same time , the class struc- ture and the ...
Contents
FROM CAXTON TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 30 |
THE TIME OF CRISIS 17911800 | 73 |
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