Educating The Proper Woman Reader

Author : Jennifer Phegley
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081420967X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educating the Proper Woman Reader written by Jennifer Phegley and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her analysis of images of influential women readers (in Harper's), intellectual women readers (in The Cornhill), independent women readers (in Belgravia), and proto-feminist women readers/critics (in Victoria) indicates that women played a significant role in determining the boundaries of literary culture within these magazines.

Author : Jennifer Phegley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802089283
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Women written by Jennifer Phegley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.

Author : Marisa Palacios Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108853471
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Women and Wayward Reading written by Marisa Palacios Knox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fictional characters. The belief that women were more impressionable than men inspired a continuous stream of anxious rhetoric about “female quixotes”: women who would imitate inappropriate characters or apply incongruous frames of reference from literature to their own lives. While the overt cultural discourse portrayed female literary identification as passive and delusional, Palacios Knox reveals increasing accounts of Victorian women wielding literary identification as a deliberate strategy. Wayward women readers challenged dominant assumptions about “feminine reading” and, by extension, femininity itself. Victorian Women and Wayward Reading contextualizes crises about female identification as reactions to decisive changes in the legal, political, educational, and professional status of women over the course of the nineteenth century: changes that wayward reading helped women first to imagine and then to enact.

Author : Jennifer Phegley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814256770
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educating the proper woman reader written by Jennifer Phegley and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan John Barnes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620325721
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading 1 Corinthians with Philosophically Educated Women written by Nathan John Barnes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women were involved in every popular philosophy in the first century, and the participation of women reaches back to the Greek origins of these schools. Philosophers often taught their daughters, wives, and other friends the basic tenets of their thinking. The Isthmian games and a tolerance for independent thinking made Corinth an attractive place for philosophers to engage in dialogue and debate, further facilitating the philosophical education of women. The activity of philosophically educated women directly informs our understanding of 1 Corinthians when Paul uses concepts that also appear in popular moral philosophy. This book explores how philosophically educated women would interact with three such concepts: marriage and family, patronage, and self-sufficiency.

Author : Maura Ives
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351871781
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Maura Ives and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1788, the Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary achievement. This collection traces the unique experiences of women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a wide range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books, calendars and gossip columns, to consider the nature of women's celebrity and the forces that created it. How did authors like Jane Austen, the Countess of Blessington, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Meynell, and Marie Corelli negotiate the increasing demands for public revelation of the private self? How did gender shape the posthumous participation of women writers such as Jane Austen, Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Christina Rossetti in celebrity culture? These and other important questions related to the treatment of women in celebrity genres and media, and the strategies women writers used to control their public images, are taken up in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth and early twentieth century women writers achieved popular, critical, and commercial success.

Author : Belinda Jack
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300160380
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Reader written by Belinda Jack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages. Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women from gaining literacy or reading what they wished. She also recounts the counter-efforts of those who have battled for girls' access to books and education. The book introduces frustrated female readers of many eras—Babylonian princesses who called for women's voices to be heard, rebellious nuns who wanted to share their writings with others, confidantes who challenged Reformation theologians' writings, nineteenth-century New England mill girls who risked their jobs to smuggle novels into the workplace, and women volunteers who taught literacy to women and children on convict ships bound for Australia. Today, new distinctions between male and female readers have emerged, and Jack explores such contemporary topics as burgeoning women's reading groups, differences in men and women's reading tastes, censorship of women's on-line reading in countries like Iran, the continuing struggle for girls' literacy in many poorer places, and the impact of women readers in their new status as significant movers in the world of reading.

Author : Olga Borovaya
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005566
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Ladino Culture written by Olga Borovaya and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary production—the press, belles lettres, and theater—as a single cultural phenomenon. The product of meticulous research and innovative methodology, Modern Ladino Culture offers a new perspective on the history of the Ladino press, a novel approach to the study of belles lettres in Ladino and their relationship to their European sources, and a fine-grained critique of Sephardic plays as venues for moral education and politicization.

Author : K. Ledbetter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620183
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Victorian Women's Periodicals written by K. Ledbetter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, style and the significance of poetry to advance our understanding of women's lives in the nineteenth century.

Author : Belinda Jack
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300120451
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Reader written by Belinda Jack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages, from Cro-Magnon caves to the digital readers of today, drawing distinctions between male and female readers and detailing how female literacy has been suppressed in some parts of the world.