An edition of Reading women
(2005)
Reading women
literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present
by Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia
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Women in art, Lezen, Books and reading in literature, Femmes dans l'art, Écrits de femmes américains, Books and reading, Vrouwen, Women authors, Histoire et critique, American fiction, History, Books and reading in art, Women in literature, History and criticism, Femmes dans la littérature, Lecture dans l'art, English fiction, Lecture dans la littérature, Victoriaanse tijd, Women, American fiction, history and criticism, American fiction, women authors, Reading in literature, Reading in artPlaces
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Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present
2016, University of Toronto Press
in English
1442679034 9781442679030
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Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
October 23, 2005, University of Toronto Press
Hardcover
in English
0802089283 9780802089281
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Reading women: literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present
2005, University of Toronto Press
in English
0802089283 9780802089281
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Table of Contents
Introduction: women readers as literary figures and cultural icons / Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia
Reading women/reading pictures: textual and visual reading in Charlotte Brontë's fiction and nineteenth-century painting / Antonia Losano
'Success is sympathy': Uncle Tom's cabin and the woman reader / Elizabeth Fekete Trubey
Reading mind, reading body: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah and the physiology of reading / Suzanne M. Ashworth
'I should no more think of dictating ... what kinds of books she should read': images of women readers in Victorian family literary magazines / Jennifer Phegley
The reading habit and 'The yellow wallpaper' / Barbara Hochman
Social reading, social work, and the social function of literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May flowers" / Sarah A. Wadsworth
'A thought in the huge bald forehead': depictions of women in the British Museum reading room, 1857-1929 / Ruth Hoberman
'Luxuriat[ing] in Milton's syllables': writer as reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Tuire Valkeakari
Poor Lutie's almanac: reading and social critique in Ann Petry's The street / Michele Crescenzo
'One of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': the pathologized woman reader in literary and popular culture / Janet Badia
The 'talking life' of books: women readers in Oprah's Book Club / Mary R. Lamb
Afterword: women readers revisited / Kate Flint.
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