The female reader in the English novel : from Burney to Austen

Publication Data

• Title The female reader in the English novel : from Burney to Austen
• Author Joe Bray
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: texts, bodies, readers
"The easy communication of sentiments": Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the complications of sympathy
"Reading responsive emotions": memoirs of Emma Courtney and memoirs of modern philosophers
Elizabeth Inchbald: "reading as a critic, or rather as an author"
Comparing "likeness" with "likeness": Belinda and the portrait
"absorbed attention": Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price.

Topics

• English prose literature :: 18th century :: History and criticism
• Women :: Books and reading :: Great Britain :: History :: 18th century
• English prose literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism
• Women :: Books and reading :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Women and literature :: Great Britain :: History :: 18th century
• Women and literature :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Authors and readers :: Great Britain :: History :: 18th century
• Authors and readers :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Literature and society :: Great Britain :: History :: 18th century
• Literature and society :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century

The female reader in the English novel : from Burney to Austen by Joe Bray. ISBN 9780203888674. Published by Routledge in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.