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Writing the reader : configurations of a cultural practice in the English novel / Dorothee Birke.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Birke, Dorothee, author.
- Series:
- Linguae & litterae ; Volume 59.
- linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language & Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 1869-7054 ; Volume 59
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Dorothee Birke, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany, and Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Habil. Univ. Freiburg i.Br. 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 1, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9783110400069
- 3110400065
- 9783110399844
- 3110399849
- OCLC:
- 953276806
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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