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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Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched funder (funder)
Other Authors: Birke, Dorothee, author (author)
Format: Thesis
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter 2016
2016.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Linguae & litterae ; Volume 59.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009437768806719
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
Issued also in print
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783110400069
9783110399844