Difference between revisions of "Altick 1957"
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Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. University of Chicago Press, 1957. Print.
Intro
- 1 "the place of reading in an industrial and increasingly democratic society"
- "a revolutionary social concept: that of the democracy of print"
- prefiguring (influencing?) Eisenstein
- 2 methodological limitations of anecdotal evidence and records of bestsellers (but they have their uses too)