Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110399844
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9783110400069
Series Statement:
linguae & litterae Volume 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
Note:
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgements -- -- Abbreviations of Titles -- -- Part I -- -- Chapter 1. Writing the Reader -- -- Chapter 2. The Reader in the Text: Dramatizing Literary Communication -- -- Part II -- -- Chapter 3. The Ambivalent Rise of the Novel Reader: Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote -- -- Chapter 4. The Institutionalization of Novel Reading: Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey -- -- Chapter 5. Psychologizing Reading as Social Behaviour: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife -- -- Part III -- -- Chapter 6. Looking Forward, Looking Back: Novel Reading in the Twenty-First Century -- -- Chapter 7. Taking Stock of the Novel Reader’s History: Ian McEwan’s Atonement -- -- Chapter 8. The Nostalgic Future of Novel Reading: Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader -- -- Concluding Remarks -- -- Works Cited -- -- Index of Names
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110307634
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Birke, Dorothee, 1975 - Writing the reader Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016 ISBN 3110307634
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110307634
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Roman
;
Leser
DOI:
10.1515/9783110399844
