An edition of Reading women
(2006)
Reading women
literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present
by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley
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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
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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
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0802094872 9780802094872
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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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