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Reading Women

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

Reading Women

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

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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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 280
ISBN-13: 9780812220803
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0812220803
Udg. Dato: 15 okt 2009
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 228mm
Forlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
Oplagsdato: 15 okt 2009
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Kategori Litteraturstudier: generelt


ISBN-13 9780812220803


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 280


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 154mm


Højde 228mm


Udg. Dato 15 okt 2009


Oplagsdato 15 okt 2009


Forlag University of Pennsylvania Press