TY - BOOK AU - Bray,Joe TI - The female reader in the English novel: from Burney to Austen T2 - Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature SN - 9780415396011 AV - PR756.W6 B73 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - English prose literature KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Women KW - Books and reading KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Women and literature KW - Authors and readers KW - Literature and society N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193) and index; Introduction : texts, bodies, readers -- "The easy communication of sentiments" : Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the complications of sympathy -- "Reading responsive emotions" : memoirs of Emma Courtney and memoirs of modern philosophers -- Elizabeth Inchbald : "reading as a critic, or rather as an author" -- Comparing "likeness" with "likeness" : Belinda and the portrait -- "absorbed attention" : Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price; Also available as an electronic resource UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780415396011 ER -