How Long to Read The Reader's Repentance

How Long Does it Take to Read The Reader's Repentance?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 20 minutes to read The Reader's Repentance by Christine L. Krueger

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"A woman preaching is like a dog walking on its hind legs," Dr. Johnson pronounced. "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." The prejudice embodied in this remark has persisted over time, impeding any proper assessment of the female preaching tradition and its role in shaping social and literary discourse. The Reader's Repentance recovers this tradition, and in doing so revises the history of nineteenth-century women's writing. Christine L. Krueger persuasively argues that Evangelical Christianity, by assuming the spiritual equality of women and men and the moral superiority of middle-class women, opened a space for the linguistic empowerment of women and fostered the emergence of women orators and writers who, in complex and contradictory ways, became powerful public figures. In the light of unpublished or long out-of-print writing by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women preachers, Krueger shows how these women drew on religious language to critique forms of male domination, promote female political power, establish communities of women, and, most significantly, feminize social discourse. She traces the legacy of these preachers through the work of writers as diverse as Hannah More, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot—women who, despite political differences, shared an evangelical strategy for placing women's concerns on the social agenda of their time. Documenting and analyzing the tradition of women's preaching as a powerful and distinctly feminist force in the development of nineteenth-century social fiction, The Reader's Repentance reconstitutes a significant chapter in the history of women and culture. This original work will be of interest to students of women's history, literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century society.

How long is The Reader's Repentance?

The Reader's Repentance by Christine L. Krueger is 380 pages long, and a total of 95,000 words.

This makes it 128% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Reader's Repentance Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 39 minutes to read The Reader's Repentance aloud.

What Reading Level is The Reader's Repentance?

The Reader's Repentance is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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