Bray, Joe <br/><br/>
The female reader in the English novel :  from Burney to Austen / 
Joe Bray 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2009 
 - viii, 200 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ;  5 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193) and index 
<br/><br/>Introduction: texts, bodies, readers --'The easy communication of sentiments': Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the complications of sympathy --'Reading responsive emotions': memoirs of Emma Courtney and memoirs of modern philosophers -- Elizabeth Inchbald:'reading as a critic, or rather as an author' -- Comparing'likeness' with'likeness': Belinda and the portrait --'absorbed attention': Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415396011  RM408.00 9780203888674 0415396018 0203888677 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English prose literature--History and criticism--18th century<br/>Women--Books and reading--History--Great Britain--18th century<br/>English prose literature--History and criticism--19th century<br/>Women--Books and reading--History--Great Britain--19th century<br/>Women and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century<br/>Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century<br/>Authors and readers--History--Great Britain--18th century<br/>Authors and readers--History--Great Britain--19th century<br/>Literature and society--History--Great Britain--18th century<br/>Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century