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

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

Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Joe Bray

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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...

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