Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present

Published by University of Toronto Press 2005

Reading Women

Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present

Edited by: Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley

In the series Studies in Book and Print Culture

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442679030

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Badia Janet :

Janet Badia is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Marshall University.

Phegley Jennifer :

Jennifer Phegley is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Women Readers as Literary Figures and Cultural Icons Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Reading Women/Reading Pictures: Textual and Visual Reading in Charlotte Brontë's Fiction and Nineteenth-Century Painting Antonia Losano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. 'Success Is Sympathy': Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Woman Reader Elizabeth Fekete Trubey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
3. Reading Mind, Reading Body: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah and the Physiology of Reading Suzanne M. Ashworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
4. '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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5. The Reading Habit and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' Barbara Hochman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
6. Social Reading, Social Work, and the Social Function of Literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May Flowers' Sarah A. Wadsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
7. 'A Thought in the Huge Bald Forehead': Depictions of Women in the British Museum Reading Room, 1857-1929 Ruth Hoberman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
8. 'Luxuriat[ing] in Milton's Syllables': Writer as Reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road Tuire Valkeakari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
9. Poor Lutie's Almanac: Reading and Social Critique in Ann Petry's The Street Michele Crescenzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
10. 'One of Those People Like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': The Pathologized Woman Reader in Literary and Popular Culture Janet Badia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
11. The 'Talking Life' of Books: Women Readers in Oprah's Book Club Mary R. Lamb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Afterword: Women Readers Revisited Kate Flint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 310

eBook

Published: October 19, 2006
ISBN: 9781442679030