来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第26集 第26集》

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  suddenly books that would never be accessible to a sort of average
  给出版市场带来了活力 这意味着
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  middle-class or working-class person suddenly became so.
  中产或是工薪阶层的人拥有了阅读的机会
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  So, it's a huge watershed in the demographics of readership.
  这便是读者数量激增的分水岭
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  So, that's one reason. A second reason is related to this,
  这也是第一个原因 其二 大萧条后
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  and that's that hundreds of thousands of men came back and
  成千上万从未从受到大学教育的士兵们
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  went to college on the GI Bill who had never been to college before.
  借助退伍军人权利法案的颁布圆了大学梦
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  Nobody in their families had ever been to college before.
  在这些人家庭里从没出过大学生
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  This also changed the readership dramatically.
  这也造就了史上人数最庞大的中产阶级
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  It was a time of an enormous boom in college enrollments,
  这段时期的大学生潮使各大学急剧扩招
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  and part of that was a huge boom in English enrollments.
  在这之中英语专业的招生占了很大比例
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  Literature was a way for people who had never been to college before to
  文学给那些从未上过大学的人
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  feel that they were entering in to the upper middle class because it
  带来一种犹如置身上中层社会的气息