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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

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