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The Woman Reader
Author | : Kate Flint |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:493113087 |
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The Woman Reader 1837 1914
Author | : Kate Flint |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198121857 |
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This book is an original and fascinating look at the topos of the woman reader and its functioning in cultural debate between the accession of Queen Victoria and the First World War. The issue of women and reading--what they should read; what they should be protected from; how, what, and when they should read--was the focus of lively discussion in the nineteenth century in a wide range of media. Flint uses recent feminist analyses of how women read as a context for her detailed and readable study of these debates, exploring in a variety of texts--from magazines like Woman's World and My Lady's Novelette to works of literature like Jane Eyre and The Portrait of a Lady--the range of stereotypes and directives addressed to women readers, and their influence on the writing of fiction. She also looks at how women readers of all classes understood their own reading experiences.
The Woman Reader
Author | : Belinda Jack |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2012-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300120455 |
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Explores what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages, from Cro-Magnon caves to the digital readers of today, drawing distinctions between male and female readers and detailing how female literacy has been suppressed in some parts of the world.
The Victorian Literature Handbook
Author | : Alexandra Warwick,Martin Willis |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2008-05-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441126429 |
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The Victorian Literature Handbook is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the Victorian period. It is a one-stop resource for literature students, providing the essential information and guidance needed from introducing the historical and cultural context to key authors, texts and genres. It includes case studies for reading literary and critical texts, a guide to key critical concepts, introductions to key critical approaches, and a timeline of literary and cultural events. Essays on changes in the canon, interdisciplinary research and current and future directions in the field lead into more advanced topics and guided further reading enables further independent work. Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for anyone beginning their study of nineteenth century literature.
Provincial Readers in Eighteenth Century England
Author | : Jan Fergus |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007-01-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780191538209 |
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Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the basis for new information about who actually bought and borrowed different kinds of fiction in eighteenth-century provincial England. This book thus offers the first solid demographic information about actual readership in eighteenth-century provincial England, not only about the class, profession, age, and sex of readers but also about the market of available fiction from which they made their choices - and some speculation about why they made the choices they did. Contrary to received ideas, men in the provinces were the principal customers for eighteenth-century novels, including those written by women. Provincial customers preferred to buy rather than borrow fiction, and women preferred plays and novels written by women - women's works would have done better had women been the principal consumers. That is, demand for fiction (written by both men and women) was about equal for the first five years, but afterward the demand for women's works declined. Both men and women preferred novels with identifiable authors to anonymous ones, however, and both boys and men were able to cross gender lines in their reading. Goody Two-Shoes was one of the more popular children's books among Rugby schoolboys, and men read the Lady's Magazine. These and other findings will alter the way scholars look at the fiction of the period, the questions asked, and the histories told of it.
Educating the Proper Woman Reader
Author | : Jennifer Phegley |
Publsiher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780814209677 |
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Her analysis of images of influential women readers (in Harper's), intellectual women readers (in The Cornhill), independent women readers (in Belgravia), and proto-feminist women readers/critics (in Victoria) indicates that women played a significant role in determining the boundaries of literary culture within these magazines.
Reading Women
Author | : Jennifer Phegley,Janet Badia |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802089281 |
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Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.
Women s Reading in Britain 1750 1835
Author | : Jacqueline Pearson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1999-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521584395 |
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The first broad overview and detailed analysis of female reading audiences in this period.