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  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. List of figures
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: books, reading and libraries in fiction
    1. Notes
    2. Bibliography of secondary literature
  8. 1. Reading envisioned in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
    1. Notes
    2. Bibliography of secondary literature
  9. 2. ‘The gay part of reading’: corruption through reading?
    1. ‘[B]ooks of education and piety’
    2. ‘[G]ive me play-books, or mathematical ones’
    3. ‘[T]he gay part of reading’
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. Bibliography of secondary literature
  10. 3. ‘Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet’: reading fiction together in the eighteenth century
    1. Reading right
    2. Communal reading
    3. Fiction and performance
    4. Notes
    5. Bibliography of secondary literature
  11. 4. Jane Austen’s refinement of the intradiegetic novel reader in Northanger Abbey: a study in Ricoeurian hermeneutics of recuperation
    1. Austen’s foil: the novel-induced corruption inside Roderick Random and The Female Quixote
    2. Austen’s early intradiegetic novels readers: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
    3. Austen’s playful endorsement of the visceral novel reader in Northanger Abbey
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. Bibliography of secondary literature
  12. 5. Evaluating negative representations of reading: Ivan Turgenev’s Faust (1855)
    1. Goethe’s Faust, Part I (1828) and Turgenev’s Faust (1855)
    2. Negative representations of reading in Turgenev’s Faust
    3. Anxieties over fiction and the (mass) reading public
    4. Conclusion
    5. Notes
    6. Bibliography of secondary literature
  13. 6. ‘I spent all yesterday trying to read’: reading in the face of existential threat in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
    1. The characters as readers
    2. ‘Authoritative texts’ and critical thinking
    3. Reading with virtue
    4. Notes
    5. Bibliography of secondary literature
  14. 7. ‘Into separate brochures’: stitched work and a new New Testament in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure
    1. A re-arranged Bible
    2. Forensic bookbinding
    3. ‘An apostle of culture’
    4. Stitched work
    5. ‘I know something of the book’
    6. Notes
    7. Bibliography of secondary literature
  15. 8. ‘A fire fed on books’: books and reading in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
    1. Reading as cooperation
    2. ‘She sat reading alone, as she always did’
    3. ‘He went on reading, but she did not hear’
    4. The original book
    5. ‘A fire fed on books’
    6. A soul and a beast
    7. Les fleurs du mal
    8. An ear of wheat lost in the field
    9. Notes
    10. Bibliography of secondary literature
  16. 9. ‘I sometimes like to read a novel’: books and reading in Victorian adventure romance
    1. Leaving the books behind
    2. ‘This is no furniture for the scholar’s library’
    3. ‘A story like some ballad’
    4. ‘A mine of suggestion’
    5. ‘Speak like a book’
    6. Notes
    7. Bibliography of secondary literature
  17. 10. When it isn’t cricket: books, reading and libraries in the girls’ school story
    1. Notes
    2. Bibliography of secondary literature
  18. 11. The body in the library in the fiction of Agatha Christie and her ‘Golden Age’ contemporaries
    1. Notes
    2. Bibliography of secondary literature
  19. 12. ‘Very nearly magical’: books and their readers in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series
    1. Powerful books
    2. The mighty text
    3. Clues, cows and karabasis
    4. Notes
    5. Bibliography of secondary literature
  20. Index

Contents

  1. List of figures
  2. Notes on contributors
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: books, reading and libraries in fiction
  5. Karen Attar and Andrew Nash
  6. Notes
  7. Bibliography of secondary literature
  8. 1.  Reading envisioned in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
  9. Daniel Sawyer
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography of secondary literature
  12. 2.  ‘The gay part of reading’: corruption through reading?
  13. Rahel Orgis
  14. ‘[B]ooks of education and piety’
  15. ‘[G]ive me play-books, or mathematical ones’
  16. ‘[T]he gay part of reading’
  17. Conclusion
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography of secondary literature
  20. 3.  ‘Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet’: reading fiction together in the eighteenth century
  21. Abigail Williams
  22. Reading right
  23. Communal reading
  24. Fiction and performance
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography of secondary literature
  27. 4.  Jane Austen’s refinement of the intradiegetic novel reader in Northanger Abbey: a study in Ricoeurian hermeneutics of recuperation
  28. Monika Class
  29. Austen’s foil: the novel-induced corruption inside Roderick Random and The Female Quixote
  30. Austen’s early intradiegetic novels readers: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
  31. Austen’s playful endorsement of the visceral novel reader in Northanger Abbey
  32. Conclusion
  33. Notes
  34. Bibliography of secondary literature
  35. 5.  Evaluating negative representations of reading: Ivan Turgenev’s Faust (1855)
  36. Shafquat Towheed
  37. Goethe’s Faust, Part I (1828) and Turgenev’s Faust (1855)
  38. Negative representations of reading in Turgenev’s Faust
  39. Anxieties over fiction and the (mass) reading public
  40. Conclusion
  41. Notes
  42. Bibliography of secondary literature
  43. 6.  ‘I spent all yesterday trying to read’: reading in the face of existential threat in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  44. Hannah Callahan
  45. The characters as readers
  46. ‘Authoritative texts’ and critical thinking
  47. Reading with virtue
  48. Notes
  49. Bibliography of secondary literature
  50. 7.  ‘Into separate brochures’: stitched work and a new New Testament in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure
  51. Lucy Sixsmith
  52. A re-arranged Bible
  53. Forensic bookbinding
  54. ‘An apostle of culture’
  55. Stitched work
  56. ‘I know something of the book’
  57. Notes
  58. Bibliography of secondary literature
  59. 8.  ‘A fire fed on books’: books and reading in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
  60. Susan Watson
  61. Reading as cooperation
  62. ‘She sat reading alone, as she always did’
  63. ‘He went on reading, but she did not hear’
  64. The original book
  65. ‘A fire fed on books’
  66. A soul and a beast
  67. Les fleurs du mal
  68. An ear of wheat lost in the field
  69. Notes
  70. Bibliography of secondary literature
  71. 9.  ‘I sometimes like to read a novel’: books and reading in Victorian adventure romance
  72. Andrew Nash
  73. Leaving the books behind
  74. ‘This is no furniture for the scholar’s library’
  75. ‘A story like some ballad’
  76. ‘A mine of suggestion’
  77. ‘Speak like a book’
  78. Notes
  79. Bibliography of secondary literature
  80. 10.  When it isn’t cricket: books, reading and libraries in the girls’ school story
  81. Karen Attar
  82. Notes
  83. Bibliography of secondary literature
  84. 11.  The body in the library in the fiction of Agatha Christie and her ‘Golden Age’ contemporaries
  85. K. A. Manley
  86. Notes
  87. Bibliography of secondary literature
  88. 12.  ‘Very nearly magical’: books and their readers in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series
  89. Jane Suzanne Carroll
  90. Powerful books
  91. The mighty text
  92. Clues, cows and karabasis
  93. Notes
  94. Bibliography of secondary literature
  95. Index

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