Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / / Jennifer Phegley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910552780503321
• Autore: Phegley Jennifer
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 0-8142-7309-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 233 p. :) : ill.
• Disciplina: 820.9/9287/09034
• Soggetti: Women in literature; Didactic literature, English - History and criticism; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Periodicals - Publishing - United States - History - 19th century; Periodicals - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Women and literature - English-speaking countries - History - 19th century; Middle class women - Books and reading - English-speaking countries - History - 19th century; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.