TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birke,Dorothee
TI  - Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel 
T2  - linguae & litterae
SN  - 9783110399844
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Books and reading in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - History of reading, English novel, narrative theory, reader figures in fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Habil; 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; restricted access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110399844
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110399844.jpg
ER  -