Reading as therapy : what contemporary fiction does for middle-class Americans / Timothy Aubry.

Why do Americans read contemporary fiction? This question seems simple, but is it? Do Americans read for the purpose of aesthetic appreciation? To satisfy their own insatiable intellectual curiosities? While other forms of media have come to monopolize consumers' leisure time, in the past two d...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Aubry, Timothy Richard, 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011.
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