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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 October 2009
      27 May 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511582899
      9780521584395
      9780521022996
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582899
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.479kg, 312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Printing and Publishing History, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, English Literature 1700-1830
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    The growth of female reading audiences from the mid-eighteenth century to the early Victorian era represents both a vital episode in women's history and a highly significant factor in shaping the literary production of the period. This book offers for the first time a broad overview and detailed analysis of this growing readership, its representation in literature, and the extent of its influence. It examines both historical women readers, including Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Carter, Frances Burney and Jane Austen, and a wide range of texts in which the figure of the woman reader is important, from Gothic (and other) novels to conduct books and educational works, letters, journals and memoirs, political and economic works, and texts on history and science. Jacqueline Pearson's study offers illuminating insights which help to make sense of the ambivalent and contradictory attitudes of the age to the key figure of the woman reader.

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    ‘… manages to be both scholarly and readable. the breadth of research is impressive, and covers a wide range of women readers, including both the well known and the less familiar … this will be a valuable text for anyone studying any aspect of gender and writing or reading during this important era.’

    Harriet Devine Source: Review of English Studies

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