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Women and Print Culture (Routledge Revivals) The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical
By Kathryn Shevelow
Copyright 1989
248 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
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With the growth of popular literary forms, particularly the periodical, during the eighteenth century, women began to assume an unprecedented place in print culture as readers and writers. Yet at the same time the very textual practices of that culture inscribed women within an increasingly restrictive and oppressive set of representations. First published in 1989, this title examines the... Read more
Acknowledgments; 1. ‘Fair-sexing it’: an introduction to periodical literature and the eighteenth-century construction of femininity 2. Early periodicals and their readers 3. Readers as writers: the female subject in the Athenian Mercury 4. ‘A sort of sex in souls’: the Tatler and the Spectator 5. Gender specialization and the feminine curriculum: the periodical for women; Afterword; Notes; Works cited; Index
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Kathryn Shevelow
