Educating the proper woman reader : Victorian family literary magazines and the cultural health of the nation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Phegley, Jennifer
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2004]
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Middle class women > Books and reading > English-speaking countries > History > 19th century. Women and literature > English-speaking countries > History > 19th century. Periodicals > Publishing > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Periodicals > Publishing > United States > History > 19th century. Literature publishing > Great Britain > History > 19th century. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Didactic literature, English > History and criticism. Women in literature.

Table of Contents:

The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines
Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855
The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864
(Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871
Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.