Victorian women and wayward reading : crises of identification / Marisa Palacios Knox.

• "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"-- 

Ämnesord

Kvinnor och litteratur  (sao)

Engelska romaner  (sao)

Identifikation (psykologi)  (sao)

Books and reading in literature.  (LCSH)

Identification (Psychology) in literature.  (LCSH)

Women in literature.  (LCSH)

Women  -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

English fiction  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Books and reading in literature.  (fast)

English fiction.  (fast)

Identification (Psychology) in literature.  (fast)

Women and literature.  (fast)

Women in literature.  (fast)

Women  -- Books and reading. (fast)

Böcker och läsning  -- genusaspekter (sao)

Women and literature  (LCSH)

English fiction  (LCSH)

Identification (Psychology)  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

Great Britain.  (fast)

1800-talet  (sao)

1800-1899  (fast)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

Z1039.W65 (LCC)

028.9082094109034 (DDC)

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