Brantlinger, Patrick. The Reading Lesson:
The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Bloomington
and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998).
Brantlinger stresses that throughout Alton Locke Kingsley, though recognizing
that the working classes are more and more literate, considers that they
are not yet adequately advanced to best represent their own interests. Literacy
was not in itself sufficient to cure the social anarchy of the masses.
Alton Locke
;
Social and Political Views
; Literacy.
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