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Medicines of the Soul: Reparative Reading and the History of Bibliotherapy
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 51, Number 2, June 2018
- pp. 17-34
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Abstract:
This essay argues that despite its significance within the history of bibliotherapy, Samuel McChord Crothers's 1916 essay "A Literary Clinic" is a stranger point of origin than proponents have realized—one with implications for conceptualizing reading and its reparative uses more broadly.