The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present
In: Composition, Literacy, and Culture Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the 1995 Edition -- Introduction -- Part I. The Legacies and Contradictions of Literacy -- 1. Reflections on the History of Literacy: Overview, Critique, and Proposals -- Part II. The Ideologies of Literacy, Past and Present -- Introductory Note -- 2. Literacy Past and Present: Critical Approaches in the Literacy/Society Relationship -- 3. Literacy and Social Development in North America: On Ideology and History -- 4. Exaggerated Estimates of Reading and Writing as Means of Education (1867) -- Part III. The Social Relations of Literacy -- Introductory Note -- 5. Critical Literacy Versus Cultural Literacy: Reading Signs of the Times? -- 6. Literacy, Education, and Fertility, Past and Present: A Critical Review -- 7. On Literacy in the Renaissance: Review and Reflections -- 8. Literacy in History: Review Essay -- 9. Respected and Profitable Labour: Literacy, Jobs, and the Working Class in the Nineteeth Century -- 10. "Pauperism, Misery, and Vice": Illiteracy and Criminality in the Nineteenth Century -- 11. Literacy in Literature and in Life: An Early Twentieth-Century Example -- 12. Literacy, Libraries, Lives: New Social and Cultural Histories -- 13. On Literacy: Review Essay (1983) -- 14. National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective -- Part IV. Ends and Beginnings -- 15. Whither the History of Literacy? The Future of the Past -- 16. Literacy, Myths, and Legacies: Lessons from the History of Literacy.