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Where to Do Things with Words
Author(s) -
De Bruyn Ben
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
orbis litterarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1600-0730
pISSN - 0105-7510
DOI - 10.1111/oli.12015
Subject(s) - plea , miller , reading (process) , circulation (fluid dynamics) , literature , history , sociology , art history , art , philosophy , law , linguistics , political science , engineering , ecology , biology , aerospace engineering
Inspired by Leah Price's recent plea on behalf of the study of ‘nonreading’ and literary logistics, this essay reconstructs a slice of the history of reading locations by analysing the decoration advice, the changing symbolic associations and the modes of print circulation connected with private libraries and toilets in the writings of two modern authors: Edith Wharton and Henry Miller.