Title: Reading women
Description: Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, a group of scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors focus on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.
Subjects: Women in art, Lezen, Books and reading in literature, Femmes dans l'art, Écrits de femmes américains, Books and reading, Vrouwen, Women authors, Histoire et critique, American fiction, History, Books and reading in art, Women in literature, History and criticism, Femmes dans la littérature, Lecture dans l'art, English fiction, Lecture dans la littérature, Victoriaanse tijd, Women, American fiction, history and criticism, American fiction, women authors, Reading in literature, Reading in art
Places: English-speaking countries
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century