Literary Representations of Dangerous Reading explores how selected
American and European literary texts, from the classic to the
contemporary, represent reading as a dangerous endeavor. It
investigates how the texts being read or the conditions of reading
may produce danger and considers the various qualities of the
dangers depicted: literal or metaphorical, real or imagined, minor
or mortal. Whereas readers can readily imagine being depressed or
bored by a book, or even perhaps corrupted in some moral fashion,
readers typically assume that the mere words on a page cannot
directly affect their health. Nevertheless, literature can and does
stage readings in which readers suffer actual harm from the magical
or supernatural qualities of a given text. Such impossibly
dangerous reading fascinates, the author argues, by exaggerating
the dangers that may inhabit certain real experiences of reading.
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