"In Adam Reed's highly original book, based on over a decade of active involvement with the Henry Williamson Society, reading clearly works as an ethnographic object, allowing him also to engage with many ongoing academic debates." "Reed contributes to debates not only on literacy, but also on nature ontologies, social memory, sense of place and material culture among others." ... Read more Reed's capacity to identify variety and imagination where one expects merely the middlebrow will inspire interested undergraduates and advanced researchers alike. Literature and Agency is a thought-provoking ethnography focusing on art, creativity, the mediation of agency in the context of literacy practices and British society.
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