The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction - Paperbackby Patrick M. Brantlinger (Author) "[Brantlinger's] writing is admirably lucid, his knowledge impressive and his thesis a welcome reminder of the class bias that so often accompanies denunciations of popular fiction." Publishers Weekly "Brantlinger is adept at discussing both the fiction itself and the social environment in which that fiction was produced and disseminated. He brings to his study a thorough knowledge of traditional and contemporary