THE CHEAP PRESS AND THE ‘READING CROWD’.

The author explores the psychological responses from the "reading crowd" to fiction and writings of Victorian age (1838 to 1910). The author states that the concept of reading crowd shaped an influential theory of mass literary consumption. From the reading crowd point of view, the author analyzed the works of W. M. Thackeray, George Cruikshank, Samuel Warren, Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, Martin Conway, Martin Conway, John Carey, and others. The author states that if living in the urban crowd creates the social atomism that causes the New Journalism, the newspaper also reshapes subjectivity, creating a new type of psychological crowd. The article concludes that throughout the nineteenth century, there was clearly no homogeneous reaction to the spread of cheap print.