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245 00 $aReading women :$bliterary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present /$cedited by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley.
260 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$c2006, c2005.
300 $ax, 297 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in book and print culture
500 $aReprinted in paperback 2006.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction: women readers as literary figures and cultural icons / Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia -- Reading women/reading pictures: textual and visual reading in Charlotte Bront©±'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.
650 0 $aWomen$xBooks and reading$zEnglish-speaking countries$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWomen$xBooks and reading$zEnglish-speaking countries$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aBooks and reading in literature.
650 0 $aWomen in art.
650 0 $aBooks and reading in art.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aBadia, Janet.$eed.
700 1 $aPhegley, Jennifer.$eed.
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948 $aLTI 09/28/2007
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