The Reading Lesson
Subtitle: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780253334541
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; 19th Century English Novel And Short Story; Literary Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; Books And Reading; English fiction; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Popular literature; Working class
First sentence: In Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), Mrs. Malaprop orders her niece "to illiterate" her lover from her memory.