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