I particularly enjoyed the richness of this deep dive. Quite often people who review books or movies or TV series give it only "a lick and a promise" to use that old cliche. They don't develop their treatment in sufficient detail to allow the potential reader or viewer to have a good sense, whether they would find it worthwhile to plunge in themselves.
Also, following one of your footnotes allowed me to explore further why England compared to America seems to have more of a verbal fluency, a love for language, and so many great writers from Shakespeare to Dickens to Shaw. Maybe not just increasing prosperity In the 18th century and thus the rise of the middle class, but the vehicle of those circulating libraries seems to have helped foster a. Culture-wide hunger for the written word?
I particularly enjoyed the richness of this deep dive. Quite often people who review books or movies or TV series give it only "a lick and a promise" to use that old cliche. They don't develop their treatment in sufficient detail to allow the potential reader or viewer to have a good sense, whether they would find it worthwhile to plunge in themselves.
Also, following one of your footnotes allowed me to explore further why England compared to America seems to have more of a verbal fluency, a love for language, and so many great writers from Shakespeare to Dickens to Shaw. Maybe not just increasing prosperity In the 18th century and thus the rise of the middle class, but the vehicle of those circulating libraries seems to have helped foster a. Culture-wide hunger for the written word?