In this Book
- Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. vii
- Conclusion: The “Other” Revolution
- pp. 205-210
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 249-258
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791483398
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
62734711
Pages
276
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No