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Jacqueline PearsonPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press1999Availability
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The growth of female reading audiences from the mid-eighteenth century to the early Victorian era represents both a vital episode in women’s history and a highly significant factor in shaping the literary production of the period. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- English prose literature — 18th century — History and criticism
- Women — Great Britain — Books and reading — History — 18th century
- English prose literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Women — Great Britain — Books and reading — History — 19th century
- Women and literature — Great Britain — History — 18th century
- Women and literature — Great Britain — History — 19th century
- Authors and readers — Great Britain — History — 18th century
- Authors and readers — Great Britain — History — 19th century
- Literature — Appreciation — Great Britain — History
- Books and reading in literature
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- "The growth of female reading audiences from the mid eighteenth century to the early Victorian era represents both a vital episode in women’s history and a highly significant factor in shaping the literary production of the period. This book offers for the first time a board overview and detailed analysis of this growing readership, its representation in literature, and the extent of its influence."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. Pygmalionesses and the pencil under the petticoat: Richardson, Johnson and Byron
- 2. What should girls and women read?
- 3. The pleasures and perils of reading
- 4. Pleasures and perils of reading: some case histories
- 5. Where and how should women read?
- 6. Preparing for equality: class, gender, reading
- 7. A dangerous recreation: women and novel-reading
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- 0521584396
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