Reading Women : Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 15-18.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I. Pleasures and Prohibitions -- Chapter 1. Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly's Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes -- Chapter 2. Engendering the Female Reader: Women's Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England -- Chapter 3. Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading, and Self-Imagining -- Part II. Practices and Accomplishment -- Chapter 4. "you sow, Ile read": Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers -- Chapter 5. The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America -- Chapter 6. Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment -- Part III. Translation and Authorship -- Chapter 7. "Who Painted the Lion?" Women and Novelle -- Chapter 8. The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible -- Chapter 9. "With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God": Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle -- Chapter 10. Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book -- Part IV. Afterword -- Chapter 11. Reading Outside the Frame -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during the expansion of female readership in the early modern period.

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