Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic

by Ben Davies, Christina Lupton, Johanne Gormsen Schmidt

Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no historical account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192857681
• ISBN13: 9780192857682
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"