The Double Life of Books
Making and Re-Making the Reader
Published on 31. July 2024
264 pages
978-1-3995-2442-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls 'inner appropriation.' It does so by bringing two voices together for the first time: the so-called 'ordinary reader' who began life as a devotee of Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat and the literature professor who writes about the history of media and reading. Ranging across world literatures in English since the 1890s and drawing on the latest research into the neuroscience of the reading brain, The Double Life of Books is at once an exercise in materialist autobibliobiography, asking what it means to be a living reader in our multimedia age, and a sustained reflection on academic professionalization, raising new questions about the limits of disciplinarity and critique.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10 black and white illustrations
File size
14,00 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-2442-1 (9781399524421)
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