{"product_id":"reading-women-9780812220803","title":"Reading Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively about women''s reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women''s writing in the early modern period, they have not attended sufficiently to the critical transformation that took place as female readers and their reading assumed significant cultural and economic power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Women\u003c\/i\u003e brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during this expansion of female readership. Drawing together historians and literary scholars, the essays share a concern with lo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Destined to become a landmark study and a fixture in the bibliographies of feminist and textual scholars, literary and social historians, students of the English Renaissance and the American Republic alike.\" * William Sherman, University of York *\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly recommended.\" * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReading Women\u003c\/i\u003e . . . generously offers important new historical, textual, and theoretical ways of accessing, describing, and interpreting early modern women's reading.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e —Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly\u003cbr\u003e PART I. PLEASURES AND PROHIBITIONS\u003cbr\u003e Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly's Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes\u003cbr\u003e —Mary Ellen Lamb\u003cbr\u003e Engendering the Female Reader: Women's Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England\u003cbr\u003e —Sasha Roberts\u003cbr\u003e Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading and Self-Imagining\u003cbr\u003e —Mary Kelley\u003cbr\u003e PART II. PRACTICES AND ACCOMPLISHMENT\u003cbr\u003e 'you sow, Ile read': Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers\u003cbr\u003e —Bianca F.-C. Calabresi\u003cbr\u003e The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America\u003cbr\u003e —Caroline Winterer\u003cbr\u003e Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment\u003cbr\u003e —Catherine E. Kelly\u003cbr\u003e PART III. TRANSLATION AND AUTHORSHIP\u003cbr\u003e 'Who Painted the Lion?' Women and \u003ci\u003eNovelle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —Ian Frederick Moulton\u003cbr\u003e The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible\u003cbr\u003e —Janice Knight\u003cbr\u003e 'With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God': Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle\u003cbr\u003e —Margaret Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book\u003cbr\u003e —Susan M. Stabile\u003cbr\u003e Reading Outside the Frame\u003cbr\u003e —Robert A. Gross\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405697491287,"sku":"9780812220803","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-women-9780812220803","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}