Bodies and books : reading and the fantasy of communion in nineteenth-century America /
"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 cha...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | In English. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text |