Writing the reader : configurations of a cultural practice in the English novel /

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 t...

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Main Author: Birke, Dorothee (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
Series:Linguae & litterae ; v. 59.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-253) and index.
ISBN:9783110399844
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