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Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England
Hannah Jeans
https://doi.org/10.14296/xisg9568
This ambitious and interdisciplinary book redraws the history of early modern Englishwomen’s reading, exploring the connections between gender, reading habits and genre throughout the seventeenth century. It challenges accepted historiographical narratives about reading that have privileged male experience and the impact of the Civil War, and highlights the multiplicity and complexity of women’s reading practices, focusing on the ways in which they used reading in constructing their gender identity. Reading was a gendered act in the early modern period; in reading certain genres, women were negotiating a range of gendered behavioural norms. From religious texts, romances and cookbooks, to news, scientific and medical treatises, and household records, this book draws on archival sources across a wide range of writing types to offer a more complete picture of women’s reading experiences, ultimately questioning the accepted notion of ‘the woman reader’ itself.
Reading Postcolonial Literature: From Professional to Non-Professional Practices
Hayley G. Toth
https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836243137
Debates about reading in postcolonial studies rarely discuss non-professional readers, except to secure the authority of professional reading practices. In Reading Postcolonial Literature, Hayley G. Toth places non-professional reading practices in dialogue with received academic wisdom to debunk common-sense assumptions about non-professional readers as ‘Western’ or ‘neocolonial’ consumers. Drawing on reading practices recorded in academic books, journal articles and on online book-reviewing platforms like Amazon and Goodreads, Toth draws attention to important continuities between professional and non-professional practices of reading postcolonial literature. At the same time, she highlights that non-professionals often have little desire to emulate the practices of professional postcolonial critics. Precisely by not adopting the established protocols and methods of postcolonial studies, non-professional readers call attention to the limits of dominant approaches to reading in the discipline.
Across four chapters, Toth examines the relationship between reading and identity during the Rushdie affair, the difference between reading and address, the challenges posed by difficult texts and the legitimacy of non-understanding, and the reception of popular texts primarily read by non-professional audiences. Reading Postcolonial Literature demonstrates that reception matters in any claims we make about the value of reading postcolonial literature, and offers new ways forward for the practice, study and teaching of reading in the discipline.
Writing Angst: Schauerliteratur, Gothic Novel und literarischer Schrecken von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart
Jakob Baur, Lars Koch, Barbara Schaff Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839406878
Die Literarisierung der Angst begann um 1800, als kulturelle Ordnungsvorstellungen erodierten und die aufgeklärte Vernunft sich zunehmend ihren verunsichernden Schattenseiten und irritierenden Doppelgängern gegenübersah. Die Beiträger*innen gehen in exemplarischen Lektüren literarischen Inszenierungen von Furcht und Schrecken für diesen Zeitraum bis zur Gegenwart nach – mit besonderem Fokus auf den deutschen Schauerroman und die anglo-schottische Gothic Novel. Dabei analysieren sie Motivtraditionen, Erzählverfahren und emotionale Semantiken literarischer Angst(-Lust), die sie als Effekt und Resonanzraum moderner Verunsicherungserfahrungen rekonstruieren.
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