| Description |
xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index. |
| Contents |
Women readers and reading in Victorian Britain and America -- Transatlantic representations of the woman reader: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), Henry James's The portrait of a lady (1881), Louisa May Alcott's Little women (1868, 1869), and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) -- Prophetic reading: Maggie Tulliver of George Eliot's The mill on the Floss (1847) -- Romance consumers: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The doctor's wife (1864) -- The case for compatibility: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872), and Mona Caird's The daughters of Danaus (1894) -- An illustrative gallery of Victorian British and American women readers: the illustrated fiction of Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Anthony Trollope -- The book as portal: depictions of the mind traveler in Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures under ground (1864) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wall-paper" (1892) -- "What is the use of a book?" Becky Sharp as revolutionary reader in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity fair (1848). |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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19th century |
| Subject |
Women -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Books and reading. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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History. |
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Books and reading in literature.
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Books and reading in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
0813026792 cloth alkaline paper |
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