This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative
imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of
novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or
plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in
1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of
'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess
fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static
backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the
potential for events that can occur both within the place of the
store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of
the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its
locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate
to define the bookstore's sense of place.
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