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  1. Images of the woman reader in Victorian British and American fiction
    Published: c 2003
    Publisher:  University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780813026794; 0813026792
    Other identifier:
    9780813026794
    2003057914
    RVK Categories: HL 1023 ; HL 1101 ; HT 1110 ; HT 1691
    Subjects: English fiction; Women; Women and literature; American fiction; Books and reading in literature; Women in literature; English fiction; Women; Women
    Scope: XVI, 287 S, Ill, 23 cm
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  2. Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  UPF, Gainesville

    "By comparing 'ideologies surrounding women and books' on both sides of the Atlantic, it offers new interpretations of canonical texts in a series of fascinating pairings of British and American texts. . . . The most original aspect of the book is... more

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    "By comparing 'ideologies surrounding women and books' on both sides of the Atlantic, it offers new interpretations of canonical texts in a series of fascinating pairings of British and American texts. . . . The most original aspect of the book is its examination of the woman reader as she appeared in illustrations in popular novels and the way illustration functioned as 'a vehicle for illuminating issues of gender

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813026794
    Scope: Online-Ressource (305 p.)
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    Table of Contents; List of Illustrations ix; Preface xi; Introduction 1; part i. a historical overview; 1. Women Readers and Reading in Victorian Britain and America 17; part ii. fictional representations of the woman reader; 2. Transatlantic Representations of the Woman Reader: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868, 1869), and Emily Brontë'; 3. Prophetic Reading: Maggie Tulliver of George Eliot's The Millon the Floss (1860) 79

    4. Romance Consumers: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Doctor's Wife (1864) 965. The Case for Compatibility: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872), and Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus (1894) 117; part iii. illustrations of the woman reader; 6. An Illustrative Gallery of Victorian British and American Women Readers: The Illustrated Fiction of Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burne

    7. The Book as Portal: Depictions of the Mind Traveler in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures under Ground (1864) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892) 1878. "What Is the Use of a Book?" Becky Sharp as Revolutionary Reader in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1848) 202; Conclusion 225; Notes 233; Bibliography 265; Index 279;