The Female Reader in the English Novel - From Burney to Austen (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	2009
Authors:	Joe Bray
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-88401-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-415-88401-2
Barcode:	9780415884013

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