| Description |
vii, 228 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Gender and genre ; 9
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Gender and genre ; no. 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index. |
| Contents |
The juvenilia : untying the knots -- Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey : riot in the brain -- Sense and sensibility and Pride and prejudice : allowing for difference -- Mansfield Park : emancipating "puny" Fanny Price -- Emma : the art of quarrelling -- Persuasion : developing an "elasticity of mind." |
| Summary |
"Jane Austen's six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner's study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen's work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process, and postmodern feminist positions on moral development and interpersonal relations. Austen is presented as a writer who not only participated in late eighteenth-century debates, but who is able to address twenty-first century concerns of a theoretical and practical nature"--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Civil society in literature.
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Civil society in literature. |
| ISBN |
9781848931770 hardback |
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1848931778 hardback |
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