The female reader in the English novel : from Burney to Austen - Bray, Joe (New York : Routledge, 2009)
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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193) and index
Keywords: English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century