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Autore |
De Ritter Richard |
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Imagining women readers, 1789-1820 : well-regulated minds / / Richard De Ritter |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
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© 2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-5261-0213-7 |
1-78170-724-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Women - Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Women - Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Authors and readers - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Authors and readers - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Literature |
Gender Studies: Women |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- 1. 'Like a sheet of white paper': books, bodies, and the sensuous materials of the mind -- 2. 'Wholesome labour': the work of reading -- 3. 'The enlightened energy of parental affection': post-revolutionary schemes of education -- 4. 'Leisure to be wise': female education and the possibilities of domesticity -- 5. Making the novel-readers of a country: pleasure and the practised reader -- Bibliography |
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