Writing the reader

Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

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• Dorothee Birke

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• 267 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016