Regulating readers
Subtitle: gender and literary criticism in the eighteenth-century novel
By: Ellen Gardiner.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Didactic fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Gender identity in literature.; Reader-response criticism.; Sex role in literature.
Description: "Regulating Readers adds to a growing body of scholarship by women which shows eighteenth-century women writers in positions of agency, and as envisioning for themselves authoritative critical positions and roles in the public sphere.

Bringing into dialogue novels and periodicals authored by men and women, Gardiner uncovers the ways in which eighteenth-century fiction helped to shape professional critical practices and to define the role and function of the professional critic in the eighteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-191) and index.