Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England
This ambitious and interdisciplinary book redraws the history of early modern Englishwomen’s reading, exploring the connections between gender, reading habits and genre throughout the seventeenth century. It challenges accepted historiographical narratives about reading that have privileged male exp...
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| description | This ambitious and interdisciplinary book redraws the history of early modern Englishwomen’s reading, exploring the connections between gender, reading habits and genre throughout the seventeenth century. It challenges accepted historiographical narratives about reading that have privileged male experience and the impact of the Civil War, and highlights the multiplicity and complexity of women’s reading practices, focusing on the ways in which they used reading in constructing their gender identity. Reading was a gendered act in the early modern period; in reading certain genres, women were negotiating a range of gendered behavioural norms. From religious texts, romances and cookbooks, to news, scientific and medical treatises, and household records, this book draws on archival sources across a wide range of writing types to offer a more complete picture of women’s reading experiences, ultimately questioning the accepted notion of ‘the woman reader’ itself. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1585302025-07-29T19:09:21Z Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England Jeans, Hannah History Europe Great Britain Stuart Era (1603-1714) Literary Criticism Subjects & Themes Women bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism This ambitious and interdisciplinary book redraws the history of early modern Englishwomen’s reading, exploring the connections between gender, reading habits and genre throughout the seventeenth century. It challenges accepted historiographical narratives about reading that have privileged male experience and the impact of the Civil War, and highlights the multiplicity and complexity of women’s reading practices, focusing on the ways in which they used reading in constructing their gender identity. Reading was a gendered act in the early modern period; in reading certain genres, women were negotiating a range of gendered behavioural norms. From religious texts, romances and cookbooks, to news, scientific and medical treatises, and household records, this book draws on archival sources across a wide range of writing types to offer a more complete picture of women’s reading experiences, ultimately questioning the accepted notion of ‘the woman reader’ itself. 2025-04-17T04:13:24Z 2025-04-17T04:13:24Z 2025-04-17T02:31:36Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100889 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/158530 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100889/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100889/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100889/1/external_content.pdf University of London Press University of London 3fae60e1-9f6a-42ab-a7ee-73df8c57b4f2 Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2024 SDG Books University of London open access |
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