The female reader in the English novel
Subtitle: from Burney to Austen
By: by Joe Bray.
Series: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature -- 5
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780415396011; 9780203888674
Subjects: English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: texts, bodies, readers; title: "The easy communication of sentiments": Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the complications of sympathy; title: "Reading responsive emotions": memoirs of Emma Courtney and memoirs of modern philosophers; title: Elizabeth Inchbald: "reading as a critic, or rather as an author"; title: Comparing "likeness" with "likeness": Belinda and the portrait; title: "absorbed attention": Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price.