Richard Ritter

Imagining women readers, 1789-1820

Well-regulated minds

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Produktbeschreibung

From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090332
• ISBN-10: 0719090334
• Artikelnr.: 41640176

Autorenporträt

Richard De Ritter is Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'Like a sheet of white paper': books, bodies, and the
sensuous materials of the mind 2. 'Wholesome labour': the work of reading
3. 'The enlightened energy of parental affection': post-revolutionary
schemes of education 4. 'Leisure to be wise': female education and the
possibilities of domesticity 5. Making the novel-readers of a country:
pleasure and the practised reader Bibliography Index