Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel

Part I. ; Writing The Reader ; The Reader In The Text: Dramatizing Literary Communication -- Part Ii. ; The Ambivalent Rise Of The Novel Reader: Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote ; The Institutionalization Of Novel Reading: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey ; Psychologizing Reading As Social Behaviour: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Doctor's Wife -- Part Iii. ; Looking Forward, Looking Back: Novel Reading In The Twenty-first Century ; Taking Stock Of The Novel Reader's History: Ian Mcewan's Atonement ; The Nostalgic Future Of Novel Reading: Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader. Dorothee Birke. Originally Presented As The Author's Habilitation (universität Freiburg Im Breisgau, 2014) Under The Title: Writing The Reader : The Quixotic Novel In England, 1752-2007. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.