Patrick Brantlinger

Author of Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay

About the Author

Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (IUP, 1998); Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay; Crusoes Footprints: show more Cultural Studies in Britain and America; Who Killed Shakespeare? Whats Happened to English since the Radical Sixties; and Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians. show less

Includes the names: P. Brantlinger, Pat Brantlinger, Patrick M. Brantlinger, ed. Patrick Brantlinger

Works by Patrick Brantlinger

Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914 (1988) 54 copies

Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (1990) 36 copies

A Companion to the Victorian Novel (2002) 32 copies

Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 (2003) 25 copies

The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1998) 24 copies

Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties (2001) 19 copies

Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994 (Institutional Studies) (1996) 17 copies

Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians (2011) 15 copies

Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Literary Studies) (2009) 7 copies

Barbed Wire: Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons (2017) 6 copies

The Spirit of Reform: British Literature and Politics, 1832-1867 (1977) 6 copies

Energy and Entropy: Science and Culture in Victorian Britain (1989) 5 copies

States of Emergency: Essays on Culture and Politics (2013) 4 copies

The Reverend Pearl May Patrick, Indiana Progressive 1875-1962: One of America's First Ordained Women (2015) 3 copies

Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy of the Myth of the Dark Continent 1 copy

Victorian Studies 1 copy

She 1 copy

Victorian Studies Vol 47 No 1 Autumn 2004 1 copy

Victorian Studies Vol 47 No 2 Winter 2005 1 copy

Victorian Studies Vol 46 No 4 Summer 2004 1 copy

"What Is 'Sensational' about the 'Sensation Novel'?" 1 copy

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Confessions of a Thug (1839) — Editor, some editions — 183 copies, 5 reviews

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (2001) — Contributor, some editions — 137 copies, 1 review

The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851 (1999) — Contributor — 5 copies

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