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Dorothee Birke
Writing the Reader [PDF ebook]
Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

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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.

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Format PDF ● Pages 267 ● ISBN 9783110399844 ● Publisher De Gruyter ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6295810 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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