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Author:

Phegley, Jennifer.

Title:

Educating the proper woman reader : Victorian family literary magazines and the cultural health of the nation / Jennifer Phegley.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Middle class women--History--English-speaking countries--History--19th century.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries--History--19th century.
Periodicals--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Periodicals--History--United States--History--19th century.
Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Didactic literature, English--History and criticism.
Women in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index.

Contents:

The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.

ISBN:

9780814290552 (CD-ROM)
0814290558 (CD-ROM)
9780814209677 (cloth : alk. paper)
081420967X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54913789

LCCN:

2004007614

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)