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urn:uuid:0fe904f7-3712-4e18-8fea-0ba66ae3e7a6 03 15 9781913739041 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction 1 A01 Karen Attar Karen Attar is the Curator of Rare Books and University Art at Senate House Library, University of London, and a former Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. She is the reviews editor for Library & Information History, and edited among other works the third edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (Facet, 2016). She has published widely on aspects of library history. 2 B01 Andrew Nash Andrew Nash is Reader in Book History and Director of the London Rare Books School, Institute of English Studies, University of London. In addition to over fifty scholarly articles and chapters, he has written, edited or co-edited eight books on various aspects of the history of the book, the history of the novel, Victorian literature, and Scottish literature. His most recent major publication is The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 7 (2019), co-edited with Claire Squires and Ian Willison. He was an editor of The Review of English Studies from 2011–2020. 01 eng 12 DSK 23 english studies 10 LIT007000 23 Literary Studies 12 DSA 23 gender 10 LIT024000 12 2AB 23 genre 12 3J 23 library history 23 reception theory 23 intratextuality 23 intertextuality 23 reading 23 materiality 23 novel 23 text 23 poetry 01 06 03 00 It is easy to find books and libraries within fiction from the earliest times onwards in works for all age groups, in canonical literature and in books that form part of popular culture. From <italic>Don Quixote</italic> to Louisa M. Alcott’s March girls and Terry Pratchett’s Unseen University wizards, the reading material of fictional personae is part of their characterisation; we are often reading readers. This volume breaks new ground in offering a chronological range of essays exploring the depiction of books, libraries and reading specifically in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Through detailed case studies from primarily British fiction that address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself, the collection examines the ways in which authors of fiction mediate and interpret books, libraries, and the act of reading to their own readers. Fiction enables writers to teach readers how to read, but it can also portray subversive acts of reading that engage with contemporary cultural anxieties or moral debates. The volume draws on approaches from literary studies, book history, library history, and theories and histories of reading, to examine what fictional representations of reading tell us about changing cultural attitudes to different reading practices, and the use (and abuse) of books beyond actual reading, both in the context of specific works and about the reception of books more widely. 04 00 <ul> <li> Introduction: Books, Reading, and Libraries in Fiction Karen Attar and Andrew Nash </li> <li> 1 Reading Envisioned in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Daniel Sawyer </li> <li> 2 ‘The Gay Part of Reading’: Corruption through Reading? Rahel Orgis </li> <li> 3 ‘Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilet’: Reading Fiction Together in the Eighteenth Century Abigail Williams </li> <li> 4 Jane Austen’s Refinement of the Intradiegetic Novel Reader in Northanger Abbey: A Study in Ricoeurian Hermeneutics of Recuperation Monika Class </li> <li> 5 ‘Evaluating Negative Representations of Reading: Ivan Turgenev’s Faust (1855)’ Shafquat Towheed </li> <li> 6 ‘I spent all yesterday trying to read’: Reading in the Face of Existential Threat in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Hannah Callahan </li> <li> 7 ‘Into separate brochures’: Stitched Work and a New New Testament in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure Lucy Sixsmith </li> <li> 8 A Fire Fed on Books: Books and Reading in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers Susan Watson </li> <li> 9 ‘I sometimes like to read a novel’: Books and Reading in Victorian Adventure Romance Andrew Nash </li> <li> 10 When It Isn’t Cricket: Books, Reading and Libraries in the Girls’ School Story Karen Attar </li> <li> 11 The Body in the Library in the Fiction of Agatha Christie and her `Golden Age’ Contemporaries Keith Manley </li> <li> 12 ‘Very Nearly Magical’: Books and their Readers in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series Jane Suzanne Carroll </li> </ul> University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20250130 02 WORLD 06 15 9781913739034 06 15 9781913739027 06 15 9781913739041 06 15 9781913739102 06 15 9781913739058 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01