Writing the Reader
Birke, Dorothee
Writing the Reader Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel / Volume 59 Dorothee Birke. - 1 online resource (1 p.) - linguae & litterae . - linguae & litterae .
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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.
9783110399844
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110399844
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.
Writing the Reader Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel / Volume 59 Dorothee Birke. - 1 online resource (1 p.) - linguae & litterae . - linguae & litterae .
Access copy available to the general public.
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.
9783110399844
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110399844
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.