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Writing the Reader Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel (Volume 59)

By: Contributor(s): Material type: ArticlePublication details: De Gruyter De Gruyter [Imprint] 2016Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110399844
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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