Writing the Reader. Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

• Yazar: Birke, Dorothee (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: De Gruyter 2016
• Seri Bilgileri: linguae & litterae
• Konular: History of reading; narrative theory; reader figures in fiction; English novel
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...