Childhood is the only time many people have to read literature and where reading literature is in fact part of the job.
The aspirational middlebrow is gone but even in the 1950s when it was supreme, it was fairly common to refer to, say, Huckleberry Finn as the great American novel.
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Culture fragments, facilitated by niche forms of mass transmission.embodied by right and left/sixties post sixties political movements; Cold War ends, and with it, the enabling fiction of a unified “American” anti-Soviet mass democracy; distrust of elites accelerates leading to
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