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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Autor principal: Birke, Dorothee (auth)
Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: De Gruyter 2016
Colección:linguae & litterae
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 electronic resource (267 p.)
ISBN:9783110399844
DOI:10.1515/9783110399844
Acceso:Open Access