"In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fictional characters. The belief that women were more impressionable than men inspired a continuous stream of anxious rhetoric about "female...

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1. Verfasser:	Knox, Marisa Palacios ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, UK ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 124
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1837-1901 Englisch Identifikation Literatur Leserin Großbritannien Women / Books and reading / Great Britain / History / 19th century English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism Women and literature / Great Britain / History / 19th century Books and reading in literature Identification (Psychology) in literature Women in literature Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	"In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fictional characters. The belief that women were more impressionable than men inspired a continuous stream of anxious rhetoric about "female quixotes": women who would imitate inappropriate characters or apply incongruous frames of reference from literature to their own lives. While the overt cultural discourse portrayed female literary identification as passive and delusional, Palacios Knox reveals increasing accounts of Victorian women wielding literary identification as a deliberate strategy. Wayward women readers challenged dominant assumptions about "feminine reading" and, by extension, femininity itself. Victorian Women and Wayward Reading contextualizes crises about female identification as reactions to decisive changes in the legal, political, educational, and professional status of women over the course of the nineteenth century: changes that wayward reading helped women first to imagine and then to enact"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xi, 233 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:	9781108496162