Some highlighting and underlining in text. Cover shows light shelfwear. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear. ; FROM DUST JACKET: This provocative study explores the function of the unconscious in reading and creative processes. The book asks if reading can change the reader, and more specifically, if women, through reading can change the unconscious fantasy structures that govern desire. Using models of the unconscious develope by Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Cixous, Noy, and Chodorow, Wyatt explores the complex interactions between a text and a reader's unconscious. She theorizes specific processes whereby young readers can assimilate the dynamic images of female autonomy in Heidi, The Wizard of Oz, and Little Women. ; 284 pages