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An edition of Reading women (2006)

Reading women

literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present

by and

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University of Toronto Press, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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English
Pages
297

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Subjects

Women in art, Books and reading in art, History, Books and reading in literature, History and criticism, Books and reading, Women authors, English fiction, American fiction, Women in literature, Women, Women and literature

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English-speaking countries

Times

20th century, 19th century
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Cover of: Reading women
Reading women: literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present
2006, University of Toronto Press, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
in English
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Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
November 18, 2006, University of Toronto Press
Paperback in English

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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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Reprinted in paperback 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Toronto, Buffalo
Series
Studies in book and print culture

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x, 297 p. :
Number of pages
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