Writing the reader : configurations of a cultural practice in the English novel / Dorothee Birke
(Linguae & litterae ; ; volume 59)
データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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出版情報 | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter , 2016 |
本文言語 | 英語 |
大きさ | 1 online resource |
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内容注記 | Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations of Titles ; Part I ; Chapter 1. Writing the Reader ; Four Approaches to Reading ; The Significance of the Quixotic Reader's Gender ; The Quixotic Plot ; Self-Reflexivity Revisited Chapter 2. The Reader in the Text: Dramatizing Literary Communication The Projection of Reading Stances ; Narratorial Commentary and the Performance of Authorship ; Part II ; Chapter 3. The Ambivalent Rise of the Novel Reader: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote Novel, Romance, and Reading around 1750 Sex, Violence, and Arabella: Debating the Physical Impact of Reading ; Models of Virtue? Lennox and Johnson ; Great Expectations? Reading as a Socially Embedded Practice ; Probing Problems of Authority and Instruction Chapter 4. The Institutionalization of Novel Reading: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey The Uses of Parody: Restructuring the Quixotic Plot ; Catherine Morland and the Politics of the Didactic ; Reading and the Channelling of Emotions ; Consumerism and Communities of Taste Reconsidering the Defense of the Novel Chapter 5. Psychologizing Reading as Social Behaviour: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Doctor's Wife ; Reading as a Bad Habit: Idleness and Licentiousness ; Isabel Sleaford and Emma Bovary ; Young Isabel and Reading as Compensation |
一般注記 | 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 Open Access Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-253) and index Includes index Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
著者標目 | *Birke, Dorothee, |
件 名 | BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc LCSH:English fiction -- History and criticism 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Books and reading in literature BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 全ての件名で検索 FREE:English fiction FREE:Books and reading in literature |
分 類 | DC23:823.009 |
書誌ID | ED00002759 |
ISBN | 9783110399844 |