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Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (IUP, 1998), Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay, Crusoe¿s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America, Who Killed Shakespeare? What¿s Happened to English since the Radical Sixties, and Taming Cannibals: Race ...

(Brantlinger's) writing is admirably lucid, his knowledgeimpressive and his thesis a welcome reminder of the class bias that so oftenaccompanies denunciations of popular fiction." -- PublishersWeekly "Brantlinger is adept at discussing both the fiction itselfand the social environment in which that fiction was produced and disseminated. Hebrings to his study a thorough knowledge of traditional and contemporaryscholarship, which results in an i...

..". important and admirable... " -- VictorianStudies..". presents a good picture of many currents ofthought that flowed through the Victorian mind, particularly those of a religiousnature." -- History"The overall standard of theseessays is very high.... should win a deserved place upon our students' readinglists." -- ISISAn outgrowth of a special issue of VictorianStudies, this volume has been expanded to include additional essays which broad...