Ten Years Ago These College English Majors Could Not Read Charles Dickens

I read an interesting study that did sentence by sentence examination of how well some US College English Majors could read the opening passage of Dickens' Bleak House. The results are bleak. Here is the study: Carlson, Susan, et al. "They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities." CEA Critic, vol. 86 no. 1, 2024, p. 1-17. Project MUSE The full text of all of Dickens can be found on Project Gutenberg