Reading Women : : Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present / / Jennifer Phegley, Janet Badia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Badia, Janet,; Phegley, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Women Readers as Literary Figures and Cultural Icons /; 1. Reading Women/Reading Pictures: Textual and Visual Reading in Charlotte Brontë's Fiction and Nineteenth-Century Painting /; 2. 'Success Is Sympathy': Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Woman Reader /; 3. Reading Mind, Reading Body: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah and the Physiology of Reading /; 4. 'I Should No More Think of Dictating ... What Kinds of Books She Should Read': Images of Women Readers in Victorian Family Literary Magazines /; 5. The Reading Habit and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' /; 6. Social Reading, Social Work, and the Social Function of Literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May Flowers' /; 7. 'A Thought in the Huge Bald Forehead': Depictions of Women in the British Museum Reading Room, 1857-1929 /; 8. 'Luxuriat[ing] in Milton's Syllables': Writer as Reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road /; 9. Poor Lutie's Almanac: Reading and Social Critique in Ann Petry's The Street /; 10. 'One of Those People Like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': The Pathologized Woman Reader in Literary and Popular Culture /; 11. The 'Talking Life' of Books: Women Readers in Oprah's Book Club /; Afterword: Women Readers Revisited /; Contributors --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442679030; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442679030
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jennifer Phegley, Janet Badia.

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.