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The determined reader : gender and culture in the novel from Napoleon to Victoria

Title
The determined reader : gender and culture in the novel from Napoleon to Victoria / Carla L. Peterson.
Author
Peterson, Carla L., 1944-
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1986.

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Description
x, 264 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The Douglass series on Women's lives and the meaning of gender
Uniform Title
Douglass series on women's lives and the meaning of gender.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Books and reading in literature
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Books and reading > France > History > 19th century
  • Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Books and reading
  • English fiction
  • French fiction
  • Literatur
  • Leser Motiv
  • Roman
  • Lesen
  • Geschichte (1800-1900)
  • France
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
  • Frankreich
  • Französisch
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 235-256.
Contents
Introduction: Nineteenth-century readers and their books -- Corinne and Louis Lambert: romantic myth making -- Jane Eyre and David Copperfield: nature and providence -- Le Rouge et le noir, Lamiel, Madame Bovary: Dionysian rituals -- The mill on the Floss and Jude the obscure: the return of the pagan -- Conclusion: Proust's readers.
ISBN
  • 0813511178
  • 9780813511177
LCCN
85002241
OCLC
  • ocm11842225
  • 11842225
  • SCSB-9144777
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library