Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Pleasures and Prohibitions
6. Introduction 13
7. Chapter 1. Inventing the Early Modern Woman Reader through the World of Goods: Lyly’s Gentlewoman Reader and Katherine Stubbes 15
8. Chapter 2. Engendering the Female Reader: Women’s Recreational Reading of Shakespeare in Early Modern England 36
9. Chapter 3. Crafting Subjectivities: Women, Reading, and Self-Imagining 55
10. Part II. Practices and Accomplishment
11. Introduction 75
12. Chapter 4. ‘‘you sow, Ile read’’: Letters and Literacies in Early Modern Samplers 79
13. Chapter 5. The Female World of Classical Reading in Eighteenth-Century America 105
14. Chapter 6. Reading and the Problem of Accomplishment 124
15. Part III. Translation and Authorship
16. Introduction 147
17. Chapter 7. ‘‘Who Painted the Lion?’’ Women and Novelle 151
18. Chapter 8. The Word Made Flesh: Reading Women and the Bible 169
19. Chapter 9. ‘‘With All Due Reverence and Respect to the Word of God’’: Aphra Behn as Skeptical Reader of the Bible and Critical Translator of Fontenelle 199
20. Chapter 10. Female Curiosities: The Transatlantic Female Commonplace Book 217
21. Part IV. Afterword
22. Chapter 11. Reading Outside the Frame 247
23. Notes on Contributors 255
24. Index 259
25. Acknowledgments 265