Birke, Dorothee,  <br/><br/>
Writing the Reader :  Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel / 
Dorothee Birke. 
 - Berlin ;  Boston :   De Gruyter,   [2016]  ©2016 
 - 1 online resource (XI, 256 p.) 
 - linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies ,  59  1869-7054 ; .
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<br/><br/> 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 
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<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 
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<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110399844 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Books and reading in literature.<br/>English fiction--History and criticism.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>History of reading, English novel, narrative theory, reader figures in fiction.