Oliver Twist
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| - | '''''The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction''''' (1998) is a book by [[Patrick Brantlinger]] | ||
| - | Patrick Brantlinger's 1998 work, ''[[The Reading Lesson]]'', is a valuable study of 19th-century elitist attitudes toward mass literacy. As Brantlinger reminds us, the reading of popular Victorian novels was viewed as "vampiric" and "addictive." Too much reading was an impediment to living; books and the fantasies they inspired ill-prepared their readers for real life. ([[Charles Paul Freund]][http://www.reason.com/links/links072204.shtml] | + | The main [[character]] in the [[eponymous]] novel by Charles [[Dickens]]. |
| - | CAPs: [[New Grub Street]], [[Oliver Twist]], [[Lady Audley]], [[Poor Jane]], [[Vanity Fair]] (more) | + | |
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The main character in the eponymous novel by Charles Dickens.
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