Victorian women and wayward reading : crises of identification /

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Author / Creator:Knox, Marisa Palacios, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
©2021
Description:xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12702230
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ISBN:9781108496162
1108496164
9781108791601
1108791603
9781108866293
9781108857260
Notes:Actual date of publication 2020.
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fictional characters. The belief that women were more impressionable than men inspired a continuous stream of anxious rhetoric about "female quixotes": women who would imitate inappropriate characters or apply incongruous frames of reference from literature to their own lives. While the overt cultural discourse portrayed female literary identification as passive and delusional, Palacios Knox reveals increasing accounts of Victorian women wielding literary identification as a deliberate strategy. Wayward women readers challenged dominant assumptions about "feminine reading" and, by extension, femininity itself. Victorian Women and Wayward Reading contextualizes crises about female identification as reactions to decisive changes in the legal, political, educational, and professional status of women over the course of the nineteenth century: changes that wayward reading helped women first to imagine and then to enact"--
Other form:Online version: Knox, Marisa Palacios, Victorian women and wayward reading Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108866293

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