UID:
edocfu_9958354381102883
Format:
1 online resource (267p.)
ISBN:
9783110399844
Series Statement:
linguae & litterae ; 59
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Abbreviations of Titles --
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Part I --
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Chapter 1. Writing the Reader --
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Chapter 2. The Reader in the Text: Dramatizing Literary Communication --
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Part II --
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Chapter 3. The Ambivalent Rise of the Novel Reader: Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote --
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Chapter 4. The Institutionalization of Novel Reading: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey --
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Chapter 5. Psychologizing Reading as Social Behaviour: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife --
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Part III --
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Chapter 6. Looking Forward, Looking Back: Novel Reading in the Twenty-First Century --
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Chapter 7. Taking Stock of the Novel Reader’s History: Ian McEwan’s Atonement --
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Chapter 8. The Nostalgic Future of Novel Reading: Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader --
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Concluding Remarks --
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Works Cited --
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Index of Names
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-030763-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110399844
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110399844
