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Writing the Reader
Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Dorothee Birke, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany, and Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations of Titles
XI - 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
30 - 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
126 - 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
254
Publishing information
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eBook published on:
August 8, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9783110399844
Hardcover published on:
August 8, 2016
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110307634
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Front matter:
11
Main content:
256
Keywords for this book
History of reading; English novel; narrative theory; reader figures in fiction
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Literary Studies
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 4.0
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