Double Life Of Books
Edinburgh University Press
The Double Life of BooksMaking and Re-Making the Reader\nAuthor(s): Peter D McDonald\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399524414, 978-1399524414\nSynopsis\nThe 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 Seusss 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 sustai.
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