Fantasies of the bookstore / Eben J. Muse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muse, Eben J., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture 2514-8524.

Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Bookstores.

Books in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Jun 2022).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108646000 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.