The Framework of Fiction: Socio-cultural Approaches to the Novel'...offers thoughtful summaries and critiques of both Marxist...and moralist...theories of the novel in society. The primary focus, however, is on a detailed study of the social context of the novel and the changing relationship between novelists and their readers...' |
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Page 148
... Altick has commented that the 1871 Education Act did not lead to a revolutionary jump in education or even literacy but merely consolidated a movement which had been gathering force for most of the century . The percentage gain in ...
... Altick has commented that the 1871 Education Act did not lead to a revolutionary jump in education or even literacy but merely consolidated a movement which had been gathering force for most of the century . The percentage gain in ...
Page 158
... ( Altick , p . 236 ) Even if these proportions do not reflect the actual numbers from these groups in the community ( and Altick suggests only 3 to 8 per cent of the population of a given town were active borrowers ) , it is surely an ...
... ( Altick , p . 236 ) Even if these proportions do not reflect the actual numbers from these groups in the community ( and Altick suggests only 3 to 8 per cent of the population of a given town were active borrowers ) , it is surely an ...
Page 163
... Altick's evidence seems to support Williams's that during the century the small percent- age of working - class writers declined but recovered in the first half of this century . Unfortunately these figures are too small to be ...
... Altick's evidence seems to support Williams's that during the century the small percent- age of working - class writers declined but recovered in the first half of this century . Unfortunately these figures are too small to be ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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