Literary Depictions Of Dangerous Reading: Textual Dangers

This book explores how American and European books represent reading as a dangerous act. It studies works that stage depictions of reading in such a way that readers suffer actual harm from the magical or supernatural qualities of a given text. Such dangerous reading fascinates by exaggerating the dangers that inhabit real experiences of reading.

• | Author: Kevin R. West
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 210 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1498563716
• | ISBN-13: 9781498563710