Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Knox, Marisa Palacios

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xi, 233 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Women > Books and reading > History > Great Britain > 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
• English fiction
• Women and literature
• Women > Books and reading
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Note

• Actual date of publication 2020.
• Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 22-1650

ISBN

• 9781108496162
• 1108496164
• 9781108791601
• 1108791603

LCCN

2020021914

OCLC

1158504189

Author

Knox, Marisa Palacios, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Other Form:

Online version: Knox, Marisa Palacios, Victorian women and wayward reading Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108866293 (DLC) 2020021915

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1650