| Description |
1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in book and print culture
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Studies in book and print culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
""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"" |
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""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"" |
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""11 The Talking Life' of Books: Women Readers in Oprah's Book Club""""Afterword: Women Readers Revisited""; ""Contributors"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women and literature.
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Women and literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Reading in literature.
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Women in art.
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Women in art. |
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Reading in art.
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Reading in art. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Phegley, Jennifer.
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Badia, Janet.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Badia, Janet. Reading Women : Literay Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9780802094872 |
| ISBN |
9781442679030 (electronic book) |
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1442679034 (electronic book) |
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0802089283 (bound) |
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0802094872 (paperback) |
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9780802094872 |
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