Inventing the early modern woman reader through the world of goods : Lyly's gentlewoman reader and Katherine Stubbes / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Engendering the female reader : women's recreational reading of Shakespeare in early modern England / Sasha Roberts -- Crafting subjectivities : women, reading and self-imagining / Mary Kelley -- "You sow, Ile read" : letters and literacies in early modern samplers / Bianca F.-C. Calabresi -- The female world of classical reading in eighteenth-century America / Caroline Winterer -- Reading and the problem of accomplishment / Catherine E. Kelly -- "Who painted the lion?" : women and novelle / Ian Frederick Moulton -- The Word made flesh : reading women and the Bible / Janice Knight -- "With all due reverence and respect to the Word of God" : Aphra Behn as skeptical reader of the Bible and critical translator of Fontenelle / Margaret Ferguson -- Female curiosities : the transatlantic female commonplace book / Susan M. Stabile -- Reading outside the frame / Robert A. Gross
Summary
Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during the expansion of female readership in the early modern period
Analysis
"Multi-User"
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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