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Through the reading glass : women, books, and sex in the French Enlightenment / Suellen Diaconoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diaconoff, Suellen.
- Series:
- SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
- SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Women--Books and reading--France--History--18th century.
- Women.
- Women and literature--France--History--18th century.
- Women and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThrough the Reading Glass explores the practices and protocols that surrounded women's reading in eighteenth-century France. Looking at texts as various as fairy tales, memoirs, historical romances, short stories, love letters, novels, and the pages of the new female periodical press, Suellen Diaconoff shows how a reading culture, one in which books, sex, and acts of reading were richly and evocatively intertwined, was constructed for and by women. Diaconoff proposes that the underlying discourse of virtue found in women's work was both an empowering strategy, intended to create new kinds of responsible and not merely responsive readers, and an integral part of the conviction that domestic reading does not have to be trivial.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Female Readers and L’Espace Du Livre
- Autobiography and Rereading
- The Romance as Transformative Reading
- The Project of Desire: Constructing Reader and Readings
- In the Culture Wars of the Eighteenth Century
- Books, Sex, and Reading in the Fairy Tale
- The Periodical Print Press for Women
- The “Other” Revolution
- Introduction: THE Reading Glass and the Politics of Virtue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791483398
- 0791483398
- 9781423744085
- 142374408X
- OCLC:
- 461441689
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