Bodies and Books : : Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America / / Gillian Silverman.
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 character, a fe...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 3 illus. |
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