Reading Women : : Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18 /

Reading Women : : Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18 / / ed. by Catherine E. Kelly, Heidi Brayman Hackel.

In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female rea...

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MitwirkendeR:
Calabresi, Bianca F.-C.,
Ferguson, Margaret,
Gross, Robert A.,
Hackel, Heidi Brayman,
Kelley, Mary,
Kelly, Catherine E.,
Knight, Janice,
Lamb, Mary Ellen,
Moulton, Ian Frederick,
Roberts, Sasha,
Stabile, Susan M.,
Winterer, Caroline,
HerausgeberIn:
Hackel, Heidi Brayman,
Kelly, Catherine E.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2008
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Material Texts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 11 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Pleasures and Prohibitions
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly's Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes
  • Chapter 2. Engendering the Female Reader: Women's Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England
  • Chapter 3. Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading, and Self-Imagining
  • Part II. Practices and Accomplishment
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4. ''you sow, Ile read'': Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers
  • Chapter 5. The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America
  • Chapter 6. Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment
  • Part III. Translation and Authorship
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 7. ''Who Painted the Lion?'' Women and Novelle
  • Chapter 8. The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible
  • Chapter 9. ''With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God'': Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle
  • Chapter 10. Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book
  • Part IV. Afterword
  • Chapter 11. Reading Outside the Frame
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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