The Female Reader in the English Novel

The Female Reader in the English Novel
Author: Joe Bray
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2008-09-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1134156146


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In the second half of the eighteenth century the female reader was a frequent topic of cultural debate and moral concern. This book examines the variety of ways in which women ‘read’ the social world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century novel.


The Female Reader in the English Novel
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Joe Bray
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-25 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the second half of the eighteenth century the female reader was a frequent topic of cultural debate and moral concern. This book examines the variety of ways
The Female Reader in the English Novel
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Joe Bray
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-25 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female
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Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Helen Taylor
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they
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Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Bernhard Schlink
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-05-01 - Publisher: Vintage

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secret
The Woman Reader, 1837-1914
Language: en
Pages: 390
Authors: Kate Flint
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

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