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List of Illustrations Introduction -Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly PART I. PLEASURES AND PROHIBITIONS Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly's Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes -Mary Ellen Lamb Engendering the Female Reader: Women's Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England -Sasha Roberts Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading and Self-Imagining -Mary Kelley PART II. PRACTICES AND ACCOMPLISHMENT 'you sow, Ile read': Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers -Bianca F.-C. Calabresi The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America -Caroline Winterer Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment -Catherine E. Kelly PART III. TRANSLATION AND AUTHORSHIP 'Who Painted the Lion?' Women and Novelle -Ian Frederick Moulton The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible -Janice Knight 'With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God': Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle -Margaret Ferguson Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book -Susan M. Stabile Reading Outside the Frame -Robert A. Gross Notes on Contributors* Acknowledgments Index
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