Writing the reader configurations of a cultural practice in the English novel
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 t...
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| Formato: | Tesis |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] :
De Gruyter
2016
2016. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Linguae & litterae ;
Volume 59. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009437768806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
