The Female Reader in the English Novel: From Burney to Austen

by Joe Bray

This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in particular as passive and impressionable; liable to identify dangerously with the world of her reading. This study shows that female characters are often active and critical readers, and develop a range of strategies for reading both texts and the world around them. The novels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415884012
• ISBN13: 9780415884013
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"