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The woman reader : 1837-1914
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ISBN: 0198121857 9780198121855 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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Nachtgeschwister : Roman
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ISBN: 3442741270 9783442741274 Year: 2011 Publisher: München : btb Verlag,

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Frauen und Bücher : eine Leidenschaft mit Folgen
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ISBN: 3442749808 9783442749805 Year: 2015 Publisher: München : btb Verlag,

Forbidden fruit: a history of women and books in art
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ISBN: 9783791340777 Year: 2009 Publisher: Munich Prestel

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Throughout the ages, from Sappho to Mary Wollstonecraft, extraordinary women have exposed other women to the world of letters and the freedom it brings. This unique cross-cultural account highlights the accomplishments of women writers and educated women, and provides beautiful reproductions of renowned artworks that illustrate their achievements and the worlds they inhabited, thereby also tracing the social functions of the portraits of reading women as well as the types of books they read. The book further explores the changing circumstances of women's access to literature and education throughout the centuries in different cultures and societies. Chronologically arranged, the volume opens in ancient times, exploring civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Greece and China. It travels to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe, to modern England and America. Along the way readers are treated to profiles of Ban Zhao, Murasaki Shikibu, Christine de Pisan, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among many others. Artworks featuring reading women range from Pompeii frescoes to important works by artists through the centuries, including Hans Holbein, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Roy Lichtenstein, Balthus and Gerhard Richter. The result is a beautifully illustrated cultural history of women reading, as fascinating and inspiring as the accomplishments it honours.


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Utopie, Utopismus und Dystopie in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Robert Musils utopisches Konzept aus geschlechtsspezifischer Sicht
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ISBN: 3631318936 9783631318935 Year: 1997 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States
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ISBN: 9781439906675 143990667X 9781439906682 1439906688 9781592134502 1592134505 9781592134519 1592134513 9786613319692 1283319691 1439906696 Year: 2012 Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press,

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A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up." Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility. Combining methodologies from the history of the book and the history of reading, to mass-cultural studies, reader-response criticism, reception studies, and formalist literary analysis, Blair shows how such critics influenced the choices of striving readers and popularized some elite writers.

Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation
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ISBN: 081420967X 0814290558 9780814209677 9780814290552 0814256775 0814273092 Year: 2004 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,

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"While many scholars have explored the ways nineteenth-century critics expressed their anxiety about the dangers of women's unregulated and implicitly uncritical reading practices, which were believed to threaten the sanctity of the home and the cultural status of the nation, Phegley argues that family literary magazines revolutionized the position of women as consumers of print by characterizing them as educated readers and able critics. Further, Phegley demonstrates the role these publications played in improving cultural literacy among women of the middle classes as well as the interplay between fiction and essays of the time by writers such as Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, G.H. Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Oliphant, George Sala, William Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope."--Jacket. 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. She argues that these publications supported women's reading choices, inviting them to define literary culture rather than to consume it passively." "Not only does this book revise our understanding of nineteenth-century attitudes toward women readers, but is also takes a fresh look at the transatlantic context of literary production.

The alienated reader : women and romantic literature in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0745002501 9780745002507 Year: 1991 Publisher: Hemel Hempstead Harvester Wheatsheaf

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