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Title:

Reading women : literacy, authorship, and culture in the Atlantic world, 1500-1800 / edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--History.--Great Britain--History.
Women--History.--United States--History.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History.
Women and literature--United States--History.
Literacy--History.
Books and reading--History.

Other Authors:

Brayman Hackel, Heidi.
Kelly, Catherine E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Reading outside the frame / Robert A. Gross. Engendering the female reader : women's recreational reading of Shakespeare in early modern England / Sasha Roberts -- Crafting subjectivities : women, reading and self-imagining / Mary Kelley -- "You sow, Ile read" : letters and literacies in early modern samplers / Bianca F.-C. Calabresi -- The female world of classical reading in eighteenth-century America / Caroline Winterer -- Reading and the problem of accomplishment / Catherine E. Kelly -- "Who painted the lion?" : women and novelle / Ian Frederick Moulton -- The Word made flesh : reading women and the Bible / Janice Knight -- "With all due reverence and respect to the Word of God" : Aphra Behn as skeptical reader of the Bible and critical translator of Fontenelle / Margaret Ferguson -- Female curiosities : the transatlantic female commonplace book / Susan M. Stabile -- Reading outside the frame / Robert A. Gross.

Series:

Material texts

ISBN:

0812240545 (acid-free paper)
9780812240542 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2008295538

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)