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245 1. $a Literature and agency in English fiction reading $d Texte imprimé $e a study of the Henry Williamson Society $f Adam Reed
260 .. $a Toronto $c University of Toronto Press $d 2011
280 .. $a x, 212 p. $c ports. $d 24 cm
295 1. $a Studies in book and print culture
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references and index
327 .. $a Pt. I Books ; 1. Possessions ; 2. Collections ; pt. II Land ; 3. Journeys ; 4.
Returns ; pt. III Pasts ; 5. Remembrance ; 6. Pattern.
330 .. $a "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
