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*"a revolutionary social concept: that of the democracy of print"'''
 
*"a revolutionary social concept: that of the democracy of print"'''
 
**prefiguring (influencing?) Eisenstein
 
**prefiguring (influencing?) Eisenstein
*2 methodological limitations of anecdotal evidence and records of bestsellers (but they have their uses too)
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*2 methodological limitations of anecdotal evidence and records of bestsellers (but they have their uses too) -- the history of reading is rootedness in "the total history of the period" including political, religious, economic, and trchnological

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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) -- the history of reading is rootedness in "the total history of the period" including political, religious, economic, and trchnological