Critique, Tweaked
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures , Timothy Aubry. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America , Merve Emre. Chicago University Press, 2017.
Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century , Hugh McIntosh. University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot , Vera Tobin. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Tom Perrin
American Literary History, ajz021, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz021
Published: 15 July 2019
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Do readers, especially professional ones, ever get to be done feeling guilty? Three of the books under review here—Merve Emre’s Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017), Vera Tobin’s Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot (2018), and Hugh McIntosh’s Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century (2018)—present as elements of their stakes the question of how and whether it is worthwhile to study the kinds of texts and modes of reception we are apparently still to think of as “guilty pleasures.” Tobin relates the story of a colleague who questions her project of writing on “plot twists” on the...
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Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures , Timothy Aubry. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America , Merve Emre. Chicago University Press, 2017.
Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century , Hugh McIntosh. University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot , Vera Tobin. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Tom Perrin
American Literary History, ajz021, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz021
Published: 15 July 2019
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Issue Section: Essay Review
Do readers, especially professional ones, ever get to be done feeling guilty? Three of the books under review here—Merve Emre’s Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017), Vera Tobin’s Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot (2018), and Hugh McIntosh’s Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century (2018)—present as elements of their stakes the question of how and whether it is worthwhile to study the kinds of texts and modes of reception we are apparently still to think of as “guilty pleasures.” Tobin relates the story of a colleague who questions her project of writing on “plot twists” on the...
© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com
This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model)
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