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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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Product Details
De Gruyter
3110399849 / 9783110399844
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
823.009
08/08/2016
Germany
English
254 pages
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