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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.

Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

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      Publisher: De Gruyter
      Publication Date: 08/08/2016
      ISBN13: 9783110307634, 978-3110307634
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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