| Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present Subjects: Women in literature; Reading in literature; Women in art; Reading in art; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of book and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms. Badia Janet : Janet Badia is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Marshall University. Phegley Jennifer :Jennifer Phegley is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. |