Nathalie Ferrand: "La femme qui lit, ou le genre de la lecture dans les romans français (et anglais) au XVIIIe siècle"
Abstract:
Based on the analysis of over a hundred novels (most of them French), this article studies the cases of the fictional readers (men and women) in these works. The theme has been linked to the problem of the author's gender. Some questions have to be discussed: Is gender significant as far as fictional reading is concerned? Does male and female reading show any difference in relation to the author's gender? In particular, what kind of relationship has a female character with books?
Some examples of novels containing reading topoi.
AsK, jan 2011
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