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Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Hardcover)
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Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Hardcover)
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Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and
the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot
of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach
shows what no historical account of books published during the
pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers
between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The
book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague,
apocalypse, and racial violence, but also readers whose taste for
older novels, and for re-reading novels they knew earlier in their
lives, has grown. Alternating between chapters that analyse single
texts that were popular (Albert Camus's The Plague, Ali Smith's
Summer, Charlotte Broente's Jane Eyre) and others that describe
clusters of, for example, dystopian fiction and nature writing,
this work brings out the diverse quality of the Covid-19 bookshelf.
Time is of central importance to this study, both in terms of the
time of lockdown and the temporality of reading itself within this
wider disrupted sense of time. By exploring these varied
experiences, this book investigates the larger question of how the
consumption of novels depends on and shapes people's experience of
non-work time, providing a specific lens through which to examine
the phenomenology of reading more generally. This timely work also
negotiates debates in the study of reading that distinguish
theoretically between critical reading and reading for pleasure,
between professional and lay reading. All sides of the sociological
and literary debate must be brought to bear in understanding what
readers tell us about what novels have meant to them in this
complex historical moment.
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