Desire and domestic fiction : a political history of the novel

Introduction: The Politics of Domesticating Culture, Then and Now -- The Rise of Female Authority in the Novel -- The Logic of the Social Contract -- The Logic of the Sexual Contract -- The Sexual Contract as Narrative Paradigm -- The Sexual Contract as Narrative Process -- The Rise of the Domestic Woman -- The Book of Class Sexuality -- A Country House That is Not a Country House -- Labor That is Not Labor -- Economy That is Not Money -- The Power of Feminization -- The Rise of the Novel -- The Battle of the Books -- Strategies of Self-Production: Pamela -- The Self Contained: Emma -- History in the House of Culture -- The Rhetoric of Violence: 1819 -- The Rhetoric of Disorder: 1832 -- The Politics of Domestic Fiction: 1848 -- Figures of Desire: The Brontes -- Seduction and the Scene of Reading -- The Woman's Museum: Jane Eyre -- Modern Men: Shirley and the Fuegians -- Modern Women: Dora and Mrs. Brown.

Reading women : literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present

Studies in book and print culture

Studies in book and print culture.

women readers as literary figures and cultural icons / Reading women/reading pictures: textual and visual reading in Charlotte Bronte's fiction and nineteenth-century painting / 'Success is sympathy': Uncle Tom's cabin and the woman reader / Reading mind, reading body : Augusta Jane Evan's Beulah and the physiology of reading / 'I should no more think of dictating ... what kinds of books she should read': images of women readers in Victorian family literary magazines / reading habit and 'The yellow wallpaper' / Social reading, social work, and the social function of literacy in Louisa May Alcott's May flowers / thought in the huge bald forehead': depictions of women in the British Museum reading room, 1857-1929 / 'Luxuriat(ing) in Milton's syllables': writer as reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Poor Lutie's almanac: reading and social critique in Ann Petry's The street / 'One of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': the pathologized woman reader in literary and popular culture / 'talking life' of books: women readers in Oprah's book club / women readers revisited

Reading women : literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present

Studies in book and print culture

Becoming a heroine : reading about women in novels

Endless rapture : rape, romance, and the female imagination

The fallen angel : chastity, class, and women's reading, 1835-1880

Reading the romance : women, patriarchy, and popular literature

Becoming a heroine : reading about women in novels

Insatiable appetites : twentieth-century American women's bestsellers

Contributions in women's studies ;

Intimate violence : reading rape and torture in twentieth-century fiction

Women and the popular imagination in the twenties : flappers and nymphs

Love between the covers [DVD]