Literacy and Popular Culture England 1750}}}1914 [Paperback]

A study of how and why literacy spread into every corner of English society between 1750 and 1914.Arguing that the impact of reading and writing can be discovered in the use made of these skills and the meanings attached to them, this study examines the consequences of the spread of mass literacy across the entire range of popular culture in England.Arguing that the impact of reading and writing can be discovered in the use made of these skills and the meanings attached to them, this study examines the consequences of the spread of mass literacy across the entire range of popular culture in England.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.l. Introduction; 2. Family; 3. Education; 4. Work; 5. The natural world; 6. Imagination; 7. Politics; 8. Literacy and its uses. It is a major contribution to the field. Edward G. Holley, The Library Quarterly David Vincent has given us a book packed with important information that is based on careful research and analysis and provides interesting reading. It is a major contribution to the field. Edward G. Holley, The Library Quarterly This is a sophisticated book that makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of modern Britain. Modern Europe ...Vincent has mastered an impressive range of sources to tackle such topics as occupational recruitment, learning on the job, labor relations, and the changing popular medical remedies of the nineteenth century, to assess the way in which some broke away from the loyal body of oral wisdom in search of a more rational explanation of their environment. As such this book must be the most comprehensive study made so far in the author's chosen field, drawing in as he does the impact of the wider socio-economic and technological changes of the century. Albionlã7