Name: Victorian Women and Wayward Reading: Crises of Identification (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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Author: Palacios Knox, Marisa
ISBN: 9781108791601

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Victorian Women and Wayward Reading: Crises of Identification (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

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Physical Book

Author

Marisa Palacios Knox

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Pages

253

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781108791601

Synopsis "Victorian Women and Wayward Reading: Crises of Identification (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) "

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.

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