An Archaeology of Affect: Reading, History and Gender

Authors

  • Karin Littau

Keywords:

history of reading, reading habits, women writers, literary experience, affective reading, Emma Bovary

Abstract

Literary history is filled with stories of reading as a deeply affective experience. Why does our own age deem such reactions trivial? And why is affective reading almost exclusively now associated with women readers?

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Published

2017-10-16