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 (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2016
Series:linguae & litterae
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