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 provide 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
BrontA, 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 books
and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and
low cultural forms.
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