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Author:
Reed, Adam, 1967-
Title:
Literature and agency in English fiction reading : a study of the Henry Williamson Society / Adam Reed.
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
x, 212 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Henry Williamson Society.
Williamson, Henry,--1895-1977--Societies, etc.
Books and reading--Social aspects--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.
Literature and anthropology--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Henry Williamson Society.
Williamson, Henry,--1895-1977--Associations.
Livres et lecture--Aspect social--Grande-Bretagne.
Grande-Bretagne--Vie intellectuelle--20e siècle.
Littérature et anthropologie--Grande-Bretagne--Histoire--20e siècle.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading opens up an exciting new area for research at the intersection of literature and anthropology. The first ethnographic study of fiction reading by an anthropologist, it explores a unique literary society celebrating largely forgotten twentieth-century writer Henry Williamson (1895-1977).
Adam Reed explores topics including the extent to which readers' beliefs and practices affect their attitudes toward the material culture of reading and the ways in which books are imbued with greater significance than other objects found in readers' homes. Reed highlights the connections between the pleasures of the individual experience of reading and the development of a sense of responsibility to a reading community. Expanding the disciplinary boundaries of book history and reception studies, Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading introduces an innovative new methodology for studying reading communities."--pub. desc.
Series:
Studies in book and print culture
ISBN:
1442642483
9781442642485
OCLC:
(OCoLC)741399559
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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