Writing the reader : configurations of a cultural practice in the English novel /
Birke, Dorothee,
Writing the reader : configurations of a cultural practice in the English novel / Dorothee Birke. - 1 online resource - Linguae & litterae ; volume 59 . - Linguae & litterae ; v. 59. .
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-253) and index.
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.
Open Access
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.
9783110399844 3110399849 9783110400069 3110400065 9783110399851 3110399857
947558 MIL
2017000969
English fiction--History and criticism.
Books and reading in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Books and reading in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR821
823.009
Writing the reader : configurations of a cultural practice in the English novel / Dorothee Birke. - 1 online resource - Linguae & litterae ; volume 59 . - Linguae & litterae ; v. 59. .
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-253) and index.
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.
Open Access
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.
9783110399844 3110399849 9783110400069 3110400065 9783110399851 3110399857
947558 MIL
2017000969
English fiction--History and criticism.
Books and reading in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Books and reading in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR821
823.009