Reading women
Subtitle: literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present
By: edited by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley.
Contributors: Badia, Janet. ed.; Phegley, Jennifer. ed.
Series: Studies in book and print culture
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780802094872
Subjects: Women -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century.; Women -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century.; Women in literature.; Books and reading in literature.; Women in art.; Books and reading in art.; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Notes: Reprinted in paperback 2006.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: women readers as literary figures and cultural icons / Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia; title: Reading women/reading pictures: textual and visual reading in Charlotte Brontë's fiction and nineteenth-century painting / Antonia Losano; title: 'Success is sympathy': Uncle Tom's cabin and the woman reader / Elizabeth Fekete Trubey; title: Reading mind, reading body: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah and the physiology of reading / Suzanne M. Ashworth; title: 'I should no more think of dictating ... what kinds of books she should read': images of women readers in Victorian family literary magazines / Jennifer Phegley; title: The reading habit and 'The yellow wallpaper' / Barbara Hochman; title: Social reading, social work, and the social function of literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May flowers" / Sarah A. Wadsworth; title: 'A thought in the huge bald forehead': depictions of women in the British Museum reading room, 1857-1929 / Ruth Hoberman; title: 'Luxuriat[ing] in Milton's syllables': writer as reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Tuire Valkeakari; title: Poor Lutie's almanac: reading and social critique in Ann Petry's The street / Michele Crescenzo; title: 'One of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': the pathologized woman reader in literary and popular culture / Janet Badia; title: The 'talking life' of books: women readers in Oprah's Book Club / Mary R. Lamb; title: Afterword: women readers revisited / Kate Flint.