Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750–1914

ISBN: 9780521457712 出版年：1989 页码：378 David Vincent Cambridge University Press

In l750, half the population were unable to sign their names; by l9l4 England, together with a handful of advanced Western countries, had for the first time in history achieved a nominally literate society. This book seeks to understand how and why literacy spread into every corner of English society, and what impact it had on the lives and minds of the common people.