A statement on how "knowledge" is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination
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A statement on how "knowledge" is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-277) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Knowledge and the Novel; ONE Food for Thought: The Dissemination of Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth Century; TWO Science in the Popular Novel: Jane Webb Loudon's The Mummy! ; THREE The Monstrous Body of Knowledge: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; FOUR Lessons Learned in Class: Charlotte Brontë's The Professor ; FIVE The Tailor Transformed: Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke; SIX Destiny as an Unmapped River: George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss; Notes; Bibliography; Index