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Contents List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly p a r t i . p l e a s u r e s a n d p r o h i b i t i o n s 11 1. Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly’s Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes 15 Mary Ellen Lamb 2. Engendering the Female Reader: Women’s Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England 36 Sasha Roberts 3. Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading, and Self-Imagining 55 Mary Kelley p a r t i i . p r a c t i c e s a n d a c c o m p l i s h m e n t 73 4. ‘‘you sow, Ile read’’: Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers 79 Bianca F.-C. Calabresi 5. The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America 105 Caroline Winterer 6. Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment 124 Catherine E. Kelly viii Contents p a r t i i i . t r a n s l a t i o n a n d a u t h o r s h i p 145 7. ‘‘Who Painted the Lion?’’ Women and Novelle 151 Ian Frederick Moulton 8. The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible 169 Janice Knight 9. ‘‘With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God’’: Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle 199 Margaret Ferguson 10. Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book 217 Susan M. Stabile p a r t i v. a f t e r w o r d 245 11. Reading Outside the Frame 247 Robert A. Gross Notes on Contributors 255 Index 259 Acknowledgments 265 ...

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