LEADER 03538nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910814398703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8339-8 010 $a1-4237-4408-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000458829 035 $a(OCoLC)461441689 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579122 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000259210 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210675 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259210 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10275452 035 $a(PQKB)11153392 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407699 035 $a(OCoLC)62734711 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6276 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407699 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579122 035 $a(DE-B1597)684500 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791483398 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000458829 100 $a20040629d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThrough the reading glass $ewomen, books, and sex in the French Enlightenment /$fSuellen Diaconoff 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series in feminist criticism and theory 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6421-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tFemale Readers and L?Espace Du Livre -- $tAutobiography and Rereading -- $tThe Romance as Transformative Reading -- $tThe Project of Desire: Constructing Reader and Readings -- $tIn the Culture Wars of the Eighteenth Century -- $tBooks, Sex, and Reading in the Fairy Tale -- $tThe Periodical Print Press for Women -- $tThe ?Other? Revolution -- $tIntroduction: THE Reading Glass and the Politics of Virtue -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $a2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThrough the Reading Glass explores the practices and protocols that surrounded women's reading in eighteenth-century France. Looking at texts as various as fairy tales, memoirs, historical romances, short stories, love letters, novels, and the pages of the new female periodical press, Suellen Diaconoff shows how a reading culture, one in which books, sex, and acts of reading were richly and evocatively intertwined, was constructed for and by women. Diaconoff proposes that the underlying discourse of virtue found in women's work was both an empowering strategy, intended to create new kinds of responsible and not merely responsive readers, and an integral part of the conviction that domestic reading does not have to be trivial. 410 0$aSUNY series in feminist criticism and theory. 606 $aFrench literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen$xBooks and reading$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen$xBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a028/.9/0820944 700 $aDiaconoff$b Suellen$01654541 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814398703321 996 $aThrough the reading glass$94107868 997 $aUNINA