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Bodies and books : reading and the fantasy of communion in nineteenth-century America /
"In nineteenth-century America, Gillian Silverman contends, reading - and particularly book reading - precipitated intense fantasies of communion. In handling a book, the reader imagined touching and being touched by the people affiliated with that book's narrative world - an author, a cha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface. Reading and the Search for Oneness
- Introduction. The Fantasy of Communion
- Chapter 1. Railroad Reading, Wayward Reading
- Chapter 2. Books and the Dead
- Chapter 3. Textual Sentimentalism: Incest and the Author-Reader Bond in Melville's Pierre
- Chapter 4. Outside the Circle: Embodied Communion in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative
- Chapter 5. "The Polishing Attrition": Reading, Writing, and Renunciation in the Work of Susan Warner
- Epilogue. No End in Sight
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.