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Han, Carrie Lynn Sickmann.

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Continual reading: Modern adaptations and Victorian reading practices.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Continual reading: Modern adaptations and Victorian reading practices./
Author:	Han, Carrie Lynn Sickmann.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	281 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-09A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3702603
ISBN:	9781321740172

Continual reading: Modern adaptations and Victorian reading practices.
Han, Carrie Lynn Sickmann.

Continual reading: Modern adaptations and Victorian reading practices. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 281 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

As new forms of digital texts and reading practices proliferate, literary critics strive, with increasing urgency, to better understand "the way we read now." Acknowledging the importance of that task, this dissertation argues that there is a prior task before us: in order to fully appreciate the way we read now, we must first understand the way they---our precursors---read then. Building on the work of Nicholas Dames, Rachel Ablow, and other critics who recover forgotten reading practices, I redefine novel-reading as an interactive and intertextual process that entwines novels with plays, commodities, and periodicals.

ISBN: 9781321740172Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

Continual reading: Modern adaptations and Victorian reading practices.
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520 $a As new forms of digital texts and reading practices proliferate, literary critics strive, with increasing urgency, to better understand "the way we read now." Acknowledging the importance of that task, this dissertation argues that there is a prior task before us: in order to fully appreciate the way we read now, we must first understand the way they---our precursors---read then. Building on the work of Nicholas Dames, Rachel Ablow, and other critics who recover forgotten reading practices, I redefine novel-reading as an interactive and intertextual process that entwines novels with plays, commodities, and periodicals.
520 $a As the above critics have argued, the Victorian period plays a distinctive role in this history. My project shows that Victorian readers pursued characters and plots beyond the page, seeking out sequels or expansions to prolong their immersion. Such "continual reading," as I call it, grows from the fragmented narrative and material forms that conditioned readers to expect more of the novels and more from themselves. When readers responded to gaps in the Victorian novel by authoring their own continuations, they transformed reading into a process of consumption infused with production.
520 $a I argue that this Victorian reading practice influences our current reading practices in several ways. In our hypermediated culture of consumption, it is only a slight exaggeration to picture readers swiping the screen displaying Oliver Twist, while adjusting the volume to Lionel Bart's Oliver! before tweeting their reading progress to Goodreads friends who called the novel a must-read for anyone writing fanfiction about Terry Pratchett's Dodger. Such new technologies repeatedly prompt anxieties about the dangers of digital distractions. But my dissertation shows that the canonical Victorian novels that are now cited as the paragons of high literature---books that require what seem now like unattainable attention spans---initiated this popular practice of continual reading. By isolating Victorian novels from their continuations, we misunderstand the nature of reading. To read meant---and still means---to watch, listen, imagine, create, converse, and play. This dissertation celebrates readers' original, imaginative additions to Victorian novels, while also illuminating the publishing practices and narrative forms that prompted such contributions.
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