... would be nave in comparison to believe that several members of the working class in the Nineteenth Century could from their cotton factory promote a book to canonic status, yet popularity from the masses would make reproducibility possible. Certainly stories serialised at first in the tabloids, such as Uncle Tom ... written about; what is written tends to be what one is teaching and others are writing about- . Arnold incites us to uncover, "the best that is known and thought-, which is what the institution seeks to fulfil in the canon. Wuthering Heights is widely held to be a canonic ......

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