Writing the Reader. Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel
Abstract
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.
Keywords
History of reading; narrative theory; reader figures in fiction; English novelISBN
9783110399844Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
http://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
2016Series
linguae & litterae,Classification
Literature & literary studies