Writing the Reader
Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel| By: | Dorothee Birke |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9783110307634 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783110400069 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2016 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.