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urn:uuid:1a4b919f-df48-4949-b7df-bbe7331dead0 03 15 9781915249432 00 EB E101 10 10 02 30495105 01 02 1 New Historical Perspectives 01 01 Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England 1 A01 Hannah Jeans Hannah Jeans is Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of York, UK. Her research focuses on early modern British and European history, with a specific interest in gender, book history and theoretically informed approaches. 01 eng 12 HBLH 10 HIS015040 23 History ⇒ Early Modern History 23 women 12 HBTB 10 LIT025050 23 reading habits 10 1.1.2.2.0.0.0 12 2AB 23 literature 23 early modern 23 gender norms 23 identity 23 genre 23 books 23 news 23 religious texts 23 romances 23 cook books 23 treatises 23 household records 23 annotation 01 06 03 00 <p>This ambitious and interdisciplinary book redraws the history of early modern Englishwomen’s reading, exploring the connections between gender, reading habits and genre throughout the seventeenth century. It challenges accepted historiographical narratives about reading that have privileged male experience and the impact of the Civil War, and highlights the multiplicity and complexity of women’s reading practices, focusing on the ways in which they used reading in constructing their gender identity. Reading was a gendered act in the early modern period; in reading certain genres, women were negotiating a range of gendered behavioural norms. From religious texts, romances and cookbooks, to news, scientific and medical treatises, and household records, this book draws on archival sources across a wide range of writing types to offer a more complete picture of women’s reading experiences, ultimately questioning the accepted notion of ‘the woman reader’ itself.</p> 04 00 <ul> <li>Introduction</li> <li>1 ‘She much delighted in that holy Book’: Women’s Religious Reading Habits</li> <li>2 ‘Reading unprofitable romances’: Gender, Identity and the Romance Genre</li> <li>3 ‘I harde yow once saye yow loved forryne newes’: Women News Readers</li> <li>4 Women Reading Science and Philosophy: Medical, Culinary and Philosophical Knowledge</li> <li>5 (Re)Reading and Record Keeping</li> <li>Conclusion</li> </ul> University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20250410 02 WORLD 06 15 9781915249418 06 15 9781915249401 06 15 9781915249425 06 15 9781913739119 06 15 9781915249432 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01