Reading women : literacy, authorship, and culture in the Atlantic world, 1500-1800 / edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly.
| Other author | Brayman Hackel, Heidi editor. |
| Other author | Kelly, Catherine E. editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008. |
| Description | viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Material texts Material texts. ^A486421 |
| Contents | Inventing the early modern woman reader through the world of goods : Lyly's gentlewoman reader and Katherine Stubbes / Mary Ellen Lamb -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780812240542 |
| ISBN | 0812240545 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | Z1039.W65 R43 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |