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

ISBN-13: 9780415884013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str.

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Opis

Examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This book 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.

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).