Educating the proper woman reader : Victorian family literary magazines and the cultural health of the nation /
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Author / Creator: | Phegley, Jennifer. |
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Imprint: | Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2004. |
Description: | x, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5370294 |
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.