Reading

Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why - not by instruction or prescription but by emotion and exploration. 

Offering case histories of individual readers and reading groups based on the work of The Reader, a charity dedicated to bringing serious literature to neglected communities, the authors showcase how a whole new demographic might get into reading, and in doing so unlock the emotional intelligence and benefits to health and wellbeing which come from our access to written human stories and imagined situations.

About the author

Philip Davis is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK and was the director of CRILS (Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society). 

Fiona Magee combines the three main strands of this book: research into literary reading, the compilation of interviews and films of case histories, and the practice of shared reading.

Summary

Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why,not by instruction or prescription, but by emotion and exploration. Offering case histories of individual readers and reading groups, the authors showcase the health and wellbeing benefits which come from our access to written human stories and imagined situations

Product details

• Authors: Philip Davis, Philip (University of Liverpool Davis, Fiona Magee, Fiona (University of Liverpool Magee
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781838673086
• ISBN: 978-1-83867-308-6
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 217 g
• Series: Arts for Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General