Images of the woman reader in Victorian British and American fiction /

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Author / Creator:	Golden, Catherine.
Imprint:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2003.
Description:	xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century. American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Books and reading in literature. Women in literature. American fiction. Books and reading in literature. English fiction. Women and literature. Women -- Books and reading. Women in literature. English-speaking countries. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5035709

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ISBN:	0813026792 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-277) and index.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I. A Historical Overview
1. Women Readers and Reading in Victorian Britain and America
Pt. II. Fictional Representations of the Woman Reader
2. Transatlantic Representations of the Woman Reader: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868,1869), and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847)
3. Prophetic Reading: Maggie Tulliver of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)
4. Romance Consumers: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Doctor's Wife (1864)
5. The Case for Compatibility: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872), and Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus (1894)
Pt. 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 Burnett, and Anthony Trollope
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)
8. "What Is the Use of a Book?" Becky Sharp as Revolutionary Reader in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (1848).

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