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Many major modernists including Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison wrote central scenes describing characters reading. In most cases, the readers depicted suffer unfortunate fates. Intriguingly, the act of reading is also often intertwined with sexual activities. The Reader in Modernist Fiction analyses the construction of fictional readers, tracing their development and transformation over the first half of the twentieth century. Brian Richardson explores how the effects of reading are represented within modernist and postmodern fiction, and studies misreading as a personal limitation, sexual invitation, aesthetic allegory and ideological critique.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Modernist Hieroglyphics and the Implicated Reader
1. From James to Conrad and Ford: Suppressed Narratives, Subaltern Reading, and the Drama of Interpretation
2. The Fate of Reading in the Work of Joyce: Illusion, Demystification, Sexuality
3. "Books Were Not in Their Line": The Use and Abuse of Reading in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
4. The Dangers of Reading from Edith Wharton to Ralph Ellison
5. Reading Ruins: From Modernism to the Illegible Texts of Postmodernism and Beyond
Conclusion: The Stories of Modern Fiction, the End(s) of Misreading, and the Other Reader's Response
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
