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1. 1. The Solitary Vice

   Against Reading

   

   A provocative exploration that challenges the sanctified view of reading, tracing how the private act of immersion in books can be experienced as compulsion, pleasure, transgression and even pathology. Mixing cultural history, personal anecdote, psychoanalytic insight and literary commentary, it examines moral panics about reading, censorship and book-burning alongside the voyeuristic, masochistic and addictive dimensions of being a reader, arguing that the solitary habit of reading has long been both desired and feared.

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