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Reading women : literary fi...
Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provides a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston.Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. 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
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monografia Rebiun36373726 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36373726 m o d | cr#-n--------- 060605s2005 onca ob 000 e eng c GBA606936 bnb 0-8020-8928-3 1-281-99220-8 9786611992200 1-4426-7903-4 10.3138/9781442679030 doi UAM 991008076092004211 CBUC 991013159527606708 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng e-uk--- n------ onc CA-ON LIT007000 bisacsh 809/.89287 18.05 bcl Reading women literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present edited by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley Toronto Buffalo University of Toronto Press c2005 Toronto Buffalo Toronto Buffalo University of Toronto Press 1 online resource (310 p.) 1 online resource (310 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Studies in book and print culture Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references Introduction: women readers as literary figures and cultural icons / Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia -- Reading women/reading pictures: textual and visual reading in Charlotte Bronte's fiction and nineteenth-century painting / Antonia Losano -- 'Success is sympathy': Uncle Tom's cabin and the woman reader / Elizabeth Fekete Trubey -- Reading mind, reading body: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah and the physiology of reading / Suzanne M. Ashworth -- 'I should no more think of dictating ... what kinds of books she should read': images of women readers in Victorian family literary magazines / Jennifer Phegley -- The reading habit and 'The yellow wallpaper' / Barbara Hochman -- Social reading, social work, and the social function of literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May flowers" / Sarah A. Wadsworth -- 'A thought in the huge bald forehead': depictions of women in the British Museum reading room, 1857-1929 / Ruth Hoberman -- 'Luxuriat[ing] in Milton's syllables': writer as reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Tuire Valkeakari -- Poor Lutie's almanac: reading and social critique in Ann Petry's The street / Michele Crescenzo -- 'One of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': the pathologized woman reader in literary and popular culture / Janet Badia -- The 'talking life' of books: women readers in Oprah's Book Club / Mary R. Lamb -- Afterword: women readers revisited / Kate Flint Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provides a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston.Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. 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 Issued also in print English Women- Books and reading- English-speaking countries- History- 19th century Women- Books and reading- English-speaking countries- History- 20th century Women in literature Books and reading in literature Women in art Books and reading in art English fiction- Women authors- History and criticism American fiction- Women authors- History and criticism Femmes dans la litterature Lecture dans la litterature Femmes dans l'art Lecture dans l'art Ecrits de femmes americains- Histoire et critique Vrouwen Victoriaanse tijd Lezen Phegley, Jennifer Badia, Janet 0-8020-7176-7 0-8020-9487-2 Studies in book and print culture