Writing the Reader : Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel (Volume 59)
Title:
Writing the Reader : Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel (Volume 59)
Author:
Birke, Dorothee
ISBN:
/doi.org/10.1515/9783110399844
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Publication Information:
De Gruyter 2016
Abstract:
The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural practice. English novels about obsessive reading, written in times of medial transition, serve as test cases for a model that brings together analyses of form and content.