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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Golden |
| ISBN: | 0813026792 9780813026794 |
| OCLC Number: | 52594747 |
| Description: | xvi, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Women readers and reading in Victorian Britain and America -- Transatlantic representations of the woman reader: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), Henry James's The portrait of a lady (1881), Louisa May Alcott's Little women (1868, 1869), and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) -- Prophetic reading: Maggie Tulliver of George Eliot's The mill on the Floss (1847) -- Romance consumers: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The doctor's wife (1864) -- The case for compatibility: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872), and Mona Caird's The daughters of Danaus (1894) -- An illustrative gallery of Victorian British and American women readers: the illustrated fiction of Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Anthony Trollope -- The book as portal: depictions of the mind traveler in Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures under ground (1864) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wall-paper" (1892) -- "What is the use of a book?" Becky Sharp as revolutionary reader in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity fair (1848). |
| Responsibility: | Catherine J. Golden. |
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