FROM MORAL DECAY TO PURE ESCAPISM: HOW ATTITUDES TO READING HAVE CHANGED OVER THREE CENTURIES

Ask someone today why they enjoy reading novels and they will likely say it allows them to escape real life and immerse themselves in a different world. This escapism is seen as positive, but for centuries novel reading was thought to corrupt readers for precisely these reasons.

Arts + Culture – The Conversatio reports that ask someone today why they enjoy reading novels and they will likely say it allows them to escape real life and immerse themselves in a different world.

The report adds: This escapism is seen as positive, but for centuries novel reading was thought to corrupt readers for precisely these reasons.

This year is the UK’s National Year of Reading – a government-led campaign “to help more people (re)discover the joy of reading and make it part of their everyday lives”.

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