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Reading women : literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2006, ©2005.
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| Colección: | Studies in book and print culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""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, 1857�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