Literacy and Popular Culture: England, 1750-1914

ISBN-13: 9780521457712 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 376 str.

David Vincent

Opis

This book examines the consequences of the spread of mass literacy across the whole range of popular culture in England and argues that the impact of reading and writing can be discovered in the use that was made of these skills, and the meanings attached to them.

Recenzje

'This is an ambitious, scholarly and fascinating book of interest not only to specialists and historians but also to a wider public.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

l. Introduction; 2. Family; 3. Education; 4. Work; 5. The natural world; 6. Imagination; 7. Politics; 8. Literacy and its uses.