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Review of The Reading Lesson
Review Author: Catherine Judd

The Reading Lesson represents the culmination of Brantlinger's prolonged meditation on the complexities and anxieties involved in the emergence of mass literacy in nineteenth-century England.

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Recent Publications

 Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940
Laura Doyle - 2008 Duke University Press
In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying ... More
 
 Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jamie L Bronstein - 2008 Stanford University Press
Caught in the Machinery draws on social, cultural, and legal history to bring to life the dangers facing working people in Great Britain between 1800 and the first British Employer's Liability Act of ... More
 
 Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era
Christopher C. Nagle - 2007 Palgrave Macmillan
Drawing together theoretically informed literary history and the cultural history of sexuality, friendship, and affective relations, this is the first study to trace fully the influence of this notori... More
 
 A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811-1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal
Richard Davis - 2007 Stanford University Press
The history of England's House of Lords in the nineteenth century has been largely misunderstood or ignored by historians. Richard W. Davis argues that the Lords were not primarily reactionary or obst... More
 
 Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
Margaret D. Stetz - 2007 University of Delaware Press
his is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn fro... More
 

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