The Working-Class Novel in the Age of Mass Media by Ian Haywood
Published 1997 · 85,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is The Working-Class Novel in the Age of Mass Media to read?
The Working-Class Novel in the Age of Mass Media scores 63 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Standard academic literary-critical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Theoretical frameworks applied directly to literary texts.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- Substantial literary history and close reading throughout.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Direct academic argument.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Analytical throughout.
- Ironic distance: 12 out of 100
- Measured scholarly tone.
- Resolution withholding: 12 out of 100
- Each chapter reaches conclusions.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Chronological survey with a coherent theoretical argument.
How The Working-Class Novel in the Age of Mass Media is regarded
The Working-Class Novel in the Age of Mass Media holds a literary regard score of 68 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.