Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Attar, Karen.

Contributor:

Nash, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading in literature.

Libraries in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of London Press 2025

London : University of London Press, 2025.

Summary:

This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell us about changing cultural attitudes to different reading practices.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: books, reading and libraries in fiction

Notes

Bibliography of secondary literature

1. Reading envisioned in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

2. ‘The gay part of reading’: corruption through reading?

‘[B]ooks of education and piety’

‘[G]ive me play-books, or mathematical ones’

‘[T]he gay part of reading’

Conclusion

3. ‘Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet’: reading fiction together in the eighteenth century

Reading right

Communal reading

Fiction and performance

4. Jane Austen’s refinement of the intradiegetic novel reader in Northanger Abbey: a study in Ricoeurian hermeneutics of recuperation

Austen’s foil: the novel-induced corruption inside Roderick Random and The Female Quixote

Austen’s early intradiegetic novels readers: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice

Austen’s playful endorsement of the visceral novel reader in Northanger Abbey Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

1-913739-05-8

1-913739-04-X

OCLC:

1507825265