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| − | *2 methodological limitations of anecdotal evidence and records of bestsellers (but they have their uses too) | + | *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
