The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 |
Contents
FROM CAXTON TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 30 |
THE TIME OF CRISIS 17911800 | 73 |
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