Patrick Brantlinger  

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"Teachers of literature, for example, often express the fear that books are an endangered species, that literacy is dying out, that it is giving way to what Jerzy Kosinski calls "videocy.""--Bread and Circuses (1983) by Patrick Brantlinger, incipit

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Patrick Brantlinger (born 1941) is an American cultural historian, author of a number of books in the field of Victorian Studies including The Spirit of Reform (1977), Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1900 (1988), The Reading Lesson (1998), Bread and Circuses (1983), Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990), and Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994 (1994)


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