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Women and Print Culture (Routledge Revivals): The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical

Women and Print Culture (Routledge Revivals): The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical

Shevelow, Kathryn

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1138804207
ISBN13: 9781138804203
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 8 2016
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

With the growth of popular literary forms, particularly the periodical, during the eighteenth century, women began to assume an unprecedented place in print culture as readers and writers. Yet at the same time the very textual practices of that culture inscribed women within an increasingly restrictive and oppressive set of representations. First published in 1989, this title examines the emergence and dramatic growth of periodical literature, showing how the journals solicited women as subscribers and contributors, whilst also attempting to regulate their conduct through the promotion of exemplary feminine types. By enclosing its female readership within a discourse that defined women in terms of love, matrimony, the family, and the home, the English periodical became one of the main linguistic sites for the construction of the eighteenth-century ideology of domestic womanhood.

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