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

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Full Title:: The female reader in the English novel : from Burney to Austen / Joe Bray
Series Titles:: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 5
Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 5.

Subjects:: 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
Women
Gender identity
Gender

Table of 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.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: viii, 200 pages ; 24 cm