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Author:

Bray, Joe.

Title:

The female reader in the English novel : from Burney to Austen / Joe Bray.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 200 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Women--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.
English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Authors and readers--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: texts, bodies, readers -- "The easy communication of sentiments": Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the complications of sympathy -- "Reading responsive emotions": memoirs of Emma Courtney and memoirs of modern philosophers -- Elizabeth Inchbald: "reading as a critic, or rather as an author" -- Comparing "likeness" with "likeness": Belinda and the portrait -- "absorbed attention": Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price.

Series:

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 5

ISBN:

0203888677
9780203888674
0415396018
9780415396011

OCLC:

(OCoLC)227002089

LCCN:

2008018656

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)