Reading Women

Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvHeidi Brayman Hackel,Catherine E. Kelly,Heidi Brayman Hackel,Catherine E Kelly

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In 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.Reading Women 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 local specificity and material culture. Removing women from the historically inaccurate frame of exclusively solitary, silent reading, the authors collectively return their subjects to the activities that so often coincided with reading: shopping, sewing, talking, writing, performing, and collecting. With chapters on samplers, storytelling, testimony, and translation, the volume expands notions of reading and literacy, and it insists upon a rich and varied narrative that crosses disciplinary boundaries and national borders.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-10-15
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt414 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMaterial Texts
Antal sidor280
FörlagUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN9780812220803

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List of IllustrationsIntroduction-Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. KellyPART I. PLEASURES AND PROHIBITIONSInventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly's Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes-Mary Ellen LambEngendering the Female Reader: Women's Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England-Sasha RobertsCrafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading and Self-Imagining-Mary KelleyPART II. PRACTICES AND ACCOMPLISHMENT'you sow, Ile read': Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers-Bianca F.-C. CalabresiThe Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America-Caroline WintererReading and the Problem of Accomplishment-Catherine E. KellyPART III. TRANSLATION AND AUTHORSHIP'Who Painted the Lion?' Women and Novelle-Ian Frederick MoultonThe Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible-Janice Knight'With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God': Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle-Margaret FergusonFemale Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book-Susan M. StabileReading Outside the Frame-Robert A. GrossNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

"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"Highly recommended."-Choice"Reading Women . . . generously offers important new historical, textual, and theoretical ways of accessing, describing, and interpreting early modern women's reading."-Journal of American History