Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy
Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli
Abstract
This introductory chapter explores the transformative possibilities of reading Shakespeare for women, both collectively and individually, by combining work on women's clubs with recent work on the role of reading for individual and collective agency. It focuses on the variety of ways Shakespeare was read by American club women in order to suggest some of the repercussions of their literate practices for individual women, for groups, and for their communities in the decades around the fin de siècle. Women readers in large cities and small towns across America helped spread the idea that Shakesp ... More
Keywords: William Shakespeare, women's clubs, American club women, Shakespeare clubs, women readers, American culture
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780801452314 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: August 2016 | DOI:10.7591/cornell/9780801452314.001.0001 |
