TITLE

Learning and superstition in the nineteenth century

AUTHOR(S)

Vincent, David

PUB. DATE

March 1988

SOURCE

Bulletin -- Society for the Study of Labour History;Spring88, Vol. 53 Issue 1, p5

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article examines the view that orally transmitted folk traditions embodied a fundamental failure of comprehension by considering the impact of mass literacy on the structure of responses to ill-health. In practice the superstitions recorded with increasing energy by folklorists demanded an extreme sensitivity to all forms of individual and social conduct, and to all manifestations of animate and inanimate nature. Over time the encounter between mass literacy and the natural laws of ill-health was to prove more complex and less satisfactory than had been anticipated.

ACCESSION #

5773895

Tags: LEARNING;  COMPREHENSION;  EDUCATION;  SUPERSTITION in literature;  FOLKLORE;  LITERACY;  NINETEENTH century

 

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