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The Female Reader in the English Novel - From Burney to Austen (Paperback)
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The Female Reader in the English Novel - From Burney to Austen (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary
accounts portrayed the female reader in particular as passive and
impressionable; liable to identify dangerously with the world of
her reading. This study shows that female characters are often
active and critical readers, and develop a range of strategies for
reading both texts and the world around them. The novels of Frances
Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria
Edgeworth and Jane Austen (among others) reveal a diversity of
reading practices, as how the heroine reads is often more important
than what she reads. The book combines close stylistic analysis
with a consideration of broader intellectual debates of the period,
including changing attitudes towards sympathy, physiognomy and
portraiture.
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