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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR as "Gillian" directly on the page opposite the title page. SEE OUR PHOTOS. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket is only lightly rubbed. NO chips, tears, or fading. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original silver-stamped black cloth. From the dust jacket: "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 character, a fellow reader. This experience often led to a sense of consubstantiality, a fantasy that the reader, the material book, and the imagined other were momentarily merged. Such a fantasy challenges psychological conceptions of discrete…
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Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America Hardcover - 2012
by Gillian Silverman
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- Title Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America
- Author Gillian Silverman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
- Date 2012-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780812244151 / 081224415X
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects American literature - 19th century - History, Intimacy (Psychology) in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011046743
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.935
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