Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Female Readers and L’Espace Du Livre 21
6. Autobiography and Rereading 55
7. The Romance as Transformative Reading 77
8. The Project of Desire: Constructing Reader and Readings 101
9. In the Culture Wars of the Eighteenth Century 127
10. Books, Sex, and Reading in the Fairy Tale 151
11. The Periodical Print Press for Women 171
12. The “Other” Revolution 205
13. Introduction: THE Reading Glass and the Politics of Virtue 211
14. Bibliography 249
15. Index 259