The anxieties around the decline of reading and literacy paradoxically give rise to outsized fantasies of the power of reading. As humanists feel increasingly under threat in the institutions, they attribute to reading (particularly the reading of fiction) miraculous and healing powers.
In this, the final part of Out of Print, Edmund King reflects on bibliotherapy and some of the symposium's highlights.
Edmund King is a writer and senior lecturer in English Literature at The Open University. He writes on the history of books and reading, contemporary literary sociology, and the culture wars. With Thomas Prosser, he is the author of Beyond Woke and Anti-woke. He is known online as Christopher Lasch’s Angry Ghost.
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