Wood's "common reader"

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But with modernism it fades, right? to be resurrected by Wood most? 

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On Oct 21, 2012, at 10:39 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Yeah, "common reader"...we can look it up but the way I learned of it was via Virginia
>> Woolf......so, I guess Wood goes back to there...
> 
> The "common reader" emerges when the supply of paper and printing meet
> the demand of ever greater literarcy; long before Woolf. The rise of
> journalism, non-fiction, the novel and the common reader all come
> together.
> 
> In America, it is Whitman and Emerson who use the phrase with
> democratic enthusiasm, but the term is common in England when Swift is
> writing.