Writing the Reader Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable
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Author(s): Dorothee Birke
Publisher: De Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110307634
Edition: 1st Edition
Description
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.
