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":...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Main Author: Knox, Marisa Palacios (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Subjects:
Women > Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 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.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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