Educating the proper woman reader : Victorian family literary magazines and the cultural health of the nation /

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Author / Creator:	Phegley, Jennifer.
Imprint:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2004.
Description:	x, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Middle class women -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century. Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century. Periodicals -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism. Women in literature. American literature. Didactic literature, English. English literature. Literature publishing. Middle class women -- Books and reading. Periodicals -- Publishing. Women and literature. Women in literature. English-speaking countries. Great Britain. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5370294

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ISBN:	081420967X (cloth : alk. paper) 0814290558 (cd-rom)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth-century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines
Ch. 1. Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1850-1855
Ch. 2. The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middle-class power in the Cornhill Magazine, 1860-1864
Ch. 3. (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia Magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871
Ch. 4. Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.

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