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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University of London Press
2025
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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-1661252025-08-23T05:08:06Z Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England Jeans, Hannah women reading habits literature early modern gender norms identity genre books news religious texts romances cook books treatises household records annotation thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACB English thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MG 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 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. 2025-08-23T05:08:05Z 2025-08-23T05:08:05Z 2025-08-22T14:20:15Z 2025 book ONIX_20250822T161747_9781915249425_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105707 9781915249425 9781915249418 9781915249401 9781913739119 9781915249432 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166125 eng New Historical Perspectives open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105707/1/xisg9568.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/xisg9568 10.14296/xisg9568 3fae60e1-9f6a-42ab-a7ee-73df8c57b4f2 9781915249425 9781915249418 9781915249401 9781913739119 9781915249432 University of London Press London open access |
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