Writing the Reader : Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel (Volume 59)

Birke, Dorothee

doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110399844

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Birke, Dorothee

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Knowledge Unlatched (KU)

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English

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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.

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Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Technology & Engineering; Agriculture; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming