The Female Reader in the English Novel : From Burney to Austen (Hardcover)

Introduction: Texts, Bodies, Readers  Chapter 1: ‘The Easy Communication of Sentiments’: Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith and the Complications of Sympathy  Chapter 2: ‘Reading Responsive Emotions’: Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Memoirs of Modern Philosophers  Chapter 3: Elizabeth Inchbald: ‘Reading as a Critic, or Rather as an Author’  Chapter 4: Comparing ‘Likeness’ with ‘Likeness’: Belinda and the Portrait  Chapter 5: ‘Absorbed Attention’: Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot and Fanny Price  Conclusion