Download or read book Writing the Reader written by Dorothee Birke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural practice. English novels about obsessive reading, written in times of medial transition, serve as test cases for a model that brings together analyses of form and content.