Fantasies of the Bookstore

by Eben J. Muse

This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110844539X
• ISBN13: 9781108445399
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.0"