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Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1659-9
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208 pages
December 2006, Polity
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  • A compelling history of theories of reading, a common component of literary theory and history of the book courses at undergraduate level.
  • This is the first major work to bring insights from book history to bear on literary history and theory.
  • One of the first books to examine systematically the impacts of digital technologies on both the material book and the physical reader.
  • Each chapter places the reader in a specific disciplinary and historical context: literature, criticism, philosophy, cultural history, bibliography, film, new media.
  • Essential reading for students of literary theory and of the history of the book.
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