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Reading women : literacy, authorship, and culture in the atlantic world, 1500-1800 /

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.

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Brayman Hackel, Heidi; Kelly, Catherine E.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2008]
©2008
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Material texts
Subjects:
Books and reading > History.
Literacy > History.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History.
Women and literature > United States > History.
Women > Books and reading > Great Britain > History.
Women > Books and reading > United States > History.
Women > Books and reading.
Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft.
Books and reading.
Literacy.
Literary Studies.
Public and Political Communication.
Women and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812205985
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Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: 11 illus.
ISBN: 9780812205985
Index Number: Z1039
CLC: G252.17
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Introduction /
Introduction --
Chapter 1. Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly s Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes /
Chapter 2. Engendering the Female Reader: Women s Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England /
Chapter 3. Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading, and Self-Imagining /
Chapter 4. you sow, Ile read : Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers /
Chapter 5. The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America /
Chapter 6. Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment /
Chapter 7. Who Painted the Lion? Women and Novelle /
Chapter 8. The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible /
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 /
Chapter 10. Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book /
Chapter 11. Reading Outside the Frame /
Notes on Contributors --
Index --
Acknowledgments.

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