Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2008

Reading Women

Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18

Edited by: Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly

In the series Material Texts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205985

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About this book

Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during the expansion of female readership in the early modern period.

Author / Editor information

Heidi Brayman Hackel is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Riverside and the author of Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy. Catherine E. Kelly is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and author of In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century.

Reviews

"Reading Women . . . generously offers important new historical, textual, and theoretical ways of accessing, describing, and interpreting early modern women's reading."—Journal of American History

"Highly recommended."—Choice

"Destined to become a landmark study and a fixture in the bibliographies of feminist and textual scholars, literary and social historians, students of the English Renaissance and the American Republic alike."—William Sherman, University of York

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Pleasures and Prohibitions
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 1. Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly’s Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes Mary Ellen Lamb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Engendering the Female Reader: Women’s Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England Sasha Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 3. Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading, and Self-Imagining Mary Kelley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Part II. Practices and Accomplishment
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 4. ‘‘you sow, Ile read’’: Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers Bianca F.-C. Calabresi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 5. The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America Caroline Winterer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 6. Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment Catherine E. Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Part III. Translation and Authorship
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 7. ‘‘Who Painted the Lion?’’ Women and Novelle Ian Frederick Moulton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 8. The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible Janice Knight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 9. ‘‘With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God’’: Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle Margaret Ferguson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 10. Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book Susan M. Stabile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Part IV. Afterword
Chapter 11. Reading Outside the Frame Robert A. Gross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 11 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: August 2, 2011
ISBN: 9780812205985