03561nam 2200673Ia 450 991081439870332120240417034545.00-7914-8339-81-4237-4408-X(CKB)1000000000458829(OCoLC)461441689(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579122(SSID)ssj0000259210(PQKBManifestationID)11210675(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259210(PQKBWorkID)10275452(PQKB)11153392(MiAaPQ)EBC3407699(OCoLC)62734711(MdBmJHUP)muse6276(Au-PeEL)EBL3407699(CaPaEBR)ebr10579122(DE-B1597)684500(DE-B1597)9780791483398(EXLCZ)99100000000045882920040629d2005 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThrough the reading glass[electronic resource] women, books, and sex in the French Enlightenment /Suellen Diaconoff1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20051 online resource (277 p.) SUNY series in feminist criticism and theoryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6421-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Female Readers and L’Espace Du Livre -- Autobiography and Rereading -- The Romance as Transformative Reading -- The Project of Desire: Constructing Reader and Readings -- In the Culture Wars of the Eighteenth Century -- Books, Sex, and Reading in the Fairy Tale -- The Periodical Print Press for Women -- The “Other” Revolution -- Introduction: THE Reading Glass and the Politics of Virtue -- Bibliography -- Index2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThrough the Reading Glass explores the practices and protocols that surrounded women's reading in eighteenth-century France. Looking at texts as various as fairy tales, memoirs, historical romances, short stories, love letters, novels, and the pages of the new female periodical press, Suellen Diaconoff shows how a reading culture, one in which books, sex, and acts of reading were richly and evocatively intertwined, was constructed for and by women. Diaconoff proposes that the underlying discourse of virtue found in women's work was both an empowering strategy, intended to create new kinds of responsible and not merely responsive readers, and an integral part of the conviction that domestic reading does not have to be trivial.SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.French literature18th centuryHistory and criticismFrench literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomenBooks and readingFranceHistory18th centuryWomen and literatureFranceHistory18th centuryFrench literatureHistory and criticism.French literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.WomenBooks and readingHistoryWomen and literatureHistory028/.9/0820944Diaconoff Suellen1654541MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814398703321Through the reading glass4107868UNINA