When Your Job is to Read After Work

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When Your Job is to Read After Work. / Lupton, Tina Jane; Davies, Ben.

In: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, Vol. 15, 2023, p. 51-57.

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Harvard

Lupton, TJ & Davies, B 2023, 'When Your Job is to Read After Work', Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, vol. 15, pp. 51-57. https://doi.org/10.5325/reception.15.1.0051

APA

Lupton, T. J., & Davies, B. (2023). When Your Job is to Read After Work. Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, 15, 51-57. https://doi.org/10.5325/reception.15.1.0051

Vancouver

Lupton TJ, Davies B. When Your Job is to Read After Work. Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. 2023;15:51-57. https://doi.org/10.5325/reception.15.1.0051

Author

Lupton, Tina Jane ; Davies, Ben. / When Your Job is to Read After Work. In: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. 2023 ; Vol. 15. pp. 51-57.

Bibtex

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