基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. Provides a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Ophrah Winfrey's televised book club.
Full Description
Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provides a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of book and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.
Contents
Introduction: Women Readers as Literary Fixtures and Cultural Icons Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley1. Reading Women/Reading Pictures: Textual and Visual reading in Charlotte Bronte's Novels and Nineteenth-Century Paintings Antonia Losano2. 'Success is Sympathy': Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Woman Reader Elizabeth Fekete Trubey3. Reading Mind, Reading Body: Augusta Jane Evans' Beulah and the Physiology of Reading Suzanne M Ashworth4. 'I Should No More Think of Dictating...What Kinds of Books She Should Read': Images of Women readers in Literary Magazines Jennifer Phegley5. The Reading Habit and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' Barbara Hochman6. Societal Reading, Social Work, and the Function of Literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May Flowers' Sarah A. Wadsworth7. 'A Thought in the huge Bald Forehead': Depictions of Women in the British Museum Reading Room 1857-1929 Ruth Hoberman8. 'Luxuriating in Milton's Syllables': Writer as Reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road Tuire Valkeakari 9. Poor Lutie's Almanac: Reading and Social Critique in Ann Petry's The Street Michele Crescenzo10. 'One of Those People Like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': The pathologized Woman Reader in Literary Popular Culture Janet Badia11. The 'Talking Life' of Books: Constructing Women Readers in Oprah's Book Club Mary R. LambAfterward: Women Readers Revisited Kate Flint
