The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Softcover

Flint, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198121857 ISBN 13: 9780198121855

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book is an original and fascinating look at the topos of the woman reader and its functioning in cultural debate between the accession of Queen Victoria and the First World War. The issue of women and reading--what they should read; what they should be protected from; how, what, and when they should read--was the focus of lively discussion in the nineteenth century in a wide range of media. Flint uses recent feminist analyses of how women read as a context for her detailed and readable study of these debates, exploring in a variety of texts--from magazines like Woman's World and My Lady's Novelette to works of literature like Jane Eyre and The Portrait of a Lady--the range of stereotypes and directives addressed to women readers, and their influence on the writing of fiction. She also looks at how women readers of all classes understood their own reading experiences.

About this title

About the Author

Kate Flint was previously lecturer at the University of Bristol, and Fellow and Tutor in English at Mansfield College, Oxford. She edited the World's Classics edition of Dickens's Great Expectations (1994), edited and introduced the WC edition of Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? (1982). Her other publications include Elizabeth Gaskell (Northcote House, 1994), Dickensr (Harvester, 1986), and as editor The Victorian Novelist (Croom Helm, 1987), Virginia Woolf's The Waves (Penguin, 1992), and Impressionists in England (Routledge, 1984).

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198121857
• ISBN 13: 9780198121855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378