36.2051, Books: The Literary Lifeline: Harvey (2025)

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Subject: 36.2051, Books: The Literary Lifeline: Harvey (2025)

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Date: 02-Jul-2025
From: Rachel Bradshaw [Rachel.Bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Literary Lifeline: Harvey (2025)


Title: The Literary Lifeline
Subtitle: Bibliotherapy and the Transforming Power of Reading
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/literary-lifeline-9781472583604/

Author(s): Kevin Harvey

Hardback: 9781472583598 Price: £70.00
Paperback: 9781472583604 Price: £22.99

Abstract:

The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the transporting and consoling
power of reading. In this insightful and moving book, Kevin Harvey
affirms the importance that language and literature can play in our
lives, reminding us of reading's enduring, and sometimes surprising,
ability to help us through times of illness, grief, and uncertainty.
Interweaving fragments from his own experience of reading, Harvey
takes us on a fascinating tour of reading for therapeutic effect,
exploring the rise of shared reading and other uses of bibliotherapy
in various social and personal contexts. He argues, through a series
of compelling stories and life experiences, that reading not only
benefits physical and emotional wellbeing, but that it also humanises
the care process, particularly in institutional settings where
personhood can be threatened or undermined completely.
Whether he's writing about the drama and delight of reading aloud to
other people, the humane magic of the public library, or the loss of
his beloved brother and his improvised attempt to read through grief,
Harvey offers us an engaging take on the solace of reading and the
gift of the written word.
Entertaining, highly accessible, and teeming with illuminating
observations and ideas, The Literary Lifeline is a book that will
appeal to both scholars and general readers alike.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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