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Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

Hardcover

Series: Linguae & Litterae, Book 59

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3110307634
ISBN13: 9783110307634
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Aug 8 2016
Pages: 267
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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