A Hundred Years of Bibliotherapy: Healing through Books (1)

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Synopsis
The First World War gave new and vital impetus to the ancient idea that books could heal. This interdisciplinary collection provides a targeted survey of 100 years of historical and contemporary understandings and practices of ‘the book as cure’.The contributors explore the curative practices of wartime reading, how they were developed and institutionalized after the war, and the afterlives of these ideas and practices today. Divided into three sections, the first considers bibliotherapy in World War I.’ It is rooted in the wartime cultures which ensured bibliotherapy became part of the active treatment of soldiers’ damaged minds and bodies on both sides of the Atlantic after 1914. Parts two and three examine the expanding variety of critical contexts, both historical and more modern, in which reading and wellbeing continued to intersect. The chapters draw on a wide range of source material from trench magazines to autograph books to e-novels, as well as on data and information drawn from practice-based encounters. They also provide the basis for further scholarly exploration of, for example, national traditions and contexts and the inter-disciplinary relationships which they inspire.A Hundred Years of Bibliotherapy: Healing through Books provides the first interdisciplinary dialogue on and account of bibliotherapy, addressing both historical and present-day modes of engaging with the ostensibly curative power of reading and reading cultures. It is an invaluable resource for scholars of literary studies, book history, and the medical humanities.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
292 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040346662
Related ISBNs:
9781003471561, 9781032749297, 9781040346648
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Siobhan Campbell, Sara Haslam, and Edmund G. C. King
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Language Arts, Medicine
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Siobhan Campbell
Edited by:
Sara Haslam
Edited by:
Edmund G. King

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