Reading women literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press
c2006
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| Series: | Studies in book and print culture
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| Online Access: | Sumario |
| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991003135619708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: women readers as literary figures and cultural icons / Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia
- Reading women/reading pictures: textual and visual reading in Charlotte Brontë'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.
