About the book
2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Through 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.
Editions of Through the Reading Glass
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780791464212
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780791464229
- PDF
- ISBN 9780791483398
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2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Through 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.
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What is Through the Reading Glass about?
2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Through 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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Through the Reading Glass?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism
Where can I read a sample of Through the Reading Glass?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780791464212
How long is Through the Reading Glass and how many pages does it have?
Through the Reading Glass has 276 page(s)
Is Through the Reading Glass part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Through the Reading Glass?
Suellen Diaconoff
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Through the Reading Glass is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780791464212) and paperback(ISBN 9780791464229) and pdf(ISBN 9780791483398)
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