Title Reading women : literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present / edited by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley

Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2006, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in book and print culture Studies in book and print culture. Contents ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Women Readers as Literary Figures and Cultural Icons""; ""1 Reading Women/Reading Pictures: Textual and Visual Reading in Charlotte BrontÃ"'s Fiction and Nineteenth-Century Painting""; ""2 'Success Is Sympathy': Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Woman Reader""; ""3 Reading Mind, Reading Body: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah and the Physiology of Reading""; ""4 'I Should No More Think of Dictating ... What Kinds of Books She Should Read': Images of Women Readers in Victorian Family Literary Magazines"" ""5 The Reading Habit and 'The Yellow Wallpaper'""""6 Social Reading, Social Work, and the Social Function of Literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May Flowers'""; ""7 'A Thought in the Huge Bald Forehead': Depictions of Women in the British Museum Reading Room, 1857â€?1929""; ""8 'Luxuriat[ing] in Milton's Syllables': Writer as Reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road""; ""9 Poor Lutie's Almanac: Reading and Social Critique in Ann Perry's The Street""; ""10 One of Those People Like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': The Pathologized Woman Reader in Literary and Popular Culture"" 11 The Talking Life' of Books: Women Readers in Oprah's Book ClubAfterword: Women Readers Revisited -- Contributors Summary The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of book and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Women and literature. Women in literature. Reading in literature Women in art. Reading in art. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Reading in art Women and literature Women in art Women in literature Form Electronic book Author Phegley, Jennifer Badia, Janet ISBN 9781442679030 1442679034 9780802089281 0802089283 1281992208 9781281992208 9786611992200 6611992200

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