Speed Reading the Novel: Reading Dynamics and the Value of Reading at Midcentury.

This essay explores the literary foundations of the mid-twentieth-century speed-reading craze. Focusing on the most popular speed-reading program of its day, Reading Dynamics, and on its founder, Evelyn Wood, a former high school and university English instructor, I suggest understanding midcentury...

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Published in:	American Literary History Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 370 - 400
Main Author:	Thomas, Lindsay
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Summer2025
Subjects:	Oral interpretation Information overload College teachers Computers Machine design
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost