Wood's "common reader"

[alice wellintown]

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

I doubt we can find the coinage, but is attributed to Samuel Johnson
and, as I noted previously, to the supply of paper and printing that
meets the demand of a common reading public; it explodes with the
novel and, while it is given an enthusiastic cheer by the democractic
americans during their so-called ranaisance,  is not checked by
Modernism (Woolf, of course, is one of the greatest modernists).

If you want to call Wood a snob for using the term, go on and do it,
but a marxist deconstruction of his words, phrases and allusions,
makes you dound rediculous.