Joe Bray

The Female Reader in the English Novel (eBook, PDF)

From Burney to Austen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the second half of the eighteenth century the female reader was a frequent topic of cultural debate and moral concern. This book examines the variety of ways in which women 'read' the social world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century novel.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134156146
• Artikelnr.: 42977084

Autorenporträt

Joe Bray lectures in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Epistolary Novel: Representations of Consciousness (Routledge, 2003) and co-editor of Ma(r)king The Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page (Ashgate, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Texts, Bodies, Readers Chapter 1: 'The Easy Communication of
Sentiments': Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the Complications of
Sympathy Chapter 2: 'Reading Responsive Emotions': Memoirs of Emma Courtney
and Memoirs of Modern Philosophers Chapter 3: Elizabeth Inchbald: 'Reading
as a Critic, or Rather as an Author' Chapter 4: Comparing 'Likeness' with
'Likeness': Belinda and the Portrait Chapter 5: 'Absorbed Attention':
Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price Conclusion