Introductory Chapter: Addressing Readers: New Theoretical PerspectivesVirginie Iché & Sandrine Sorlin (Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier, France)I. Ethical Transactions with ReadersChapter 1. Authorial risk-taking: The relationship between Dickens and his readersRoger Sell (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)Chapter 2. "I hope I shall please my readers": Negotiating the Author-Reader Relationship in Two Corpora of British Novels, 1778-1814Juliette Misset (University of Strasbourg, France)Chapter 3. "You are my fictional audience, and as such I appreciate you very much": Direct Address in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction About Mental HealthSara K. Day (Truman State University, USA)II. Revisiting Authorial AgencyChapter 4. Interpellation and Counter-interpellation in the NovelJean-Jacques Lecercle (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France)Chapter 5. Deciphering the Joycean Address: Elusive Authority and Reader Agency in UlyssesOlivier Hercend (Sorbonne University, France)Chapter 6. "The Rest is Silence": Readerly Wo/anderings in the UnsaidClaire Majola-Leblond (University Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France)III. Challenging ReadersChapter 7. (Im)politeness and the Question of Address in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood: a Pragmatics ApproachMaurice Cronin (Paris Dauphine, France)Chapter 8. Phatic, Polemical, and Metaleptic Addresses to Readers in William Gerhardie's The PolyglotsCatherine Hoffman (University of Le Havre-Normandie, France)Chapter 9. Humouring the Reader in Alan Bennett's "A Chip in the Sugar"Vanina Jobert-Martini & Manuel Jobert (University Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France)IV. From Oral to Digital Fiction and BackChapter 10. "You know, are you you?" Being versus Playing the Second-Person in Digital FictionAlice Bell (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)Chapter 11. Addressing the Reader and/or Character in Gamebooks: Ryan North's To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or JulietBaharak Darougari (University of Strasbourg, France)Chapter 12. "Now, normally, I wouldn't be telling you this and you, I'm sure, would be happier if I wasn't." The Modern-Day Storyteller in Roddy Doyle's Charlie Savage (2019)Léa Boichard (University Savoie Mont Blanc, France)
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