Reeve, K (2012) The woman reader [book review]. Times Higher Education.
Abstract
'The Woman Reader' by Belinda Jack. This ambitious book maps out the relatively undeveloped field of women's reading habits across time and cultures, all in fewer than 350 pages. It is not an easy task, but Belinda Jack accomplishes it brilliantly. She shifts seamlessly between wide-ranging examples, from the Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, who persuaded her tutor to help her circumvent a parental ban on erotic poetry, to The Peony Pavilion (1598), a popular play whose heroine became an alter ego for the young Chinese women who read it obsessively to the point of exhaustion, prompting some concerned mothers to burn their copies...
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2017 17:16 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 19:50 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/9115 |
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