Images of the woman reader in Victorian British and American fiction /

"By comparing 'ideologies surrounding women and books' on both sides of the Atlantic, it offers new interpretations of canonical texts in a series of fascinating pairings of British and American texts. ... The most original aspect of the book is its examination of the woman reader as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Golden, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women > Books and reading > English-speaking countries > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries > History > 19th century.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Books and reading in literature.
Women in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Anglophonie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Livres et lecture dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
American fiction
Books and reading in literature
English fiction
Women and literature
Women > Books and reading
Women in literature
Fictie.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Vrouwen.
Lezers.
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English-speaking countries
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women readers and reading in Victorian Britain and America
  • Transatlantic representations of the woman reader: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), Henry James's The portrait of a lady (1881), Louisa May Alcott's Little women (1868, 1869), and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847)
  • Prophetic reading: Maggie Tulliver of George Eliot's The mill on the Floss (1847)
  • Romance consumers: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The doctor's wife (1864)
  • The case for compatibility: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872), and Mona Caird's The daughters of Danaus (1894)
  • An illustrative gallery of Victorian British and American women readers: the illustrated fiction of Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Anthony Trollope
  • The book as portal: depictions of the mind traveler in Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures under ground (1864) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wall-paper" (1892)
  • "What is the use of a book?" Becky Sharp as revolutionary reader in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity fair (1848).

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