The Female Reader in the English Novel : From Burney to Austen

ISBN-13: 9780415396011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str.

Joseph Bray;Bray Joseph

Opis

In the second half of the eighteenth century the female reader was a frequent topic of cultural debate and moral concern. This book examines the variety of ways in which women 'read' the social world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century novel.

Spis treści

Introduction: Texts, Bodies, Readers  Chapter 1: ‘The Easy Communication of Sentiments’: Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the Complications of Sympathy  Chapter 2: ‘Reading Responsive Emotions’: Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Memoirs of Modern Philosophers  Chapter 3: Elizabeth Inchbald: ‘Reading as a Critic, or Rather as an Author’  Chapter 4: Comparing ‘Likeness’ with ‘Likeness’: Belinda and the Portrait  Chapter 5: ‘Absorbed Attention’: Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price  Conclusion

O autorze

Joe Bray lectures in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield.  He is the author of The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (Routledge, 2003) and co-editor of Ma(r)king The Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page (Ashgate, 2000).