TY - BOOK AU - Bray,Joe TI - The female reader in the English novel: from Burney to Austen SN - 9780415396011 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - English prose literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Women KW - Books and reading KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Women and literature KW - Authors and readers KW - Literature and society N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0817/2008018656.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2008018656-d.html ER -