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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826902303321

Autore

De Ritter Richard

Titolo

Imagining women readers, 1789-1820 : well-regulated minds / / Richard De Ritter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015

© 2014

ISBN

1-5261-0213-7

1-78170-724-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : digital file(s)

Disciplina

820.9928709033

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  (pages 207-225) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



-- Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Imagining Women Readers' reassesses the cultural significance of women's reading in the period 1789-1820. While much attention has been paid to the moral panic provoked by novel-reading during this period, this study offers a more progressive and enabling narrative. From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, 'Imagining Women Readers' charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority.