Jane Austen among Women

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Originally published in 1992. In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist? Was she an isolated genius who rose to fame through sheer talent? Did she draw strength from the support of her family or from women writers who went before her? In Jane Austen among Women, Deborah Kaplan argues that these explanations are either misleading or insufficient. Austen, Kaplan contends, participated actively in a women's culture that promoted female authority and achievement—a culture that not only helped her become a novelist but also influenced her fiction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:258
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421433455

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Deborah Kaplan is associate professor of English at George Mason University.

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Kaplan builds a convincing picture of Austen's own women's culture, and her mode of argument is unusually vivid, subtle, and sesnitive.—Times Literary Supplement

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Divided Loyalties Chapter 1. Genteel Domesticity Chapter 2. Compliant WomenChapter 3. The Women's Culture Part II: Portraits of the Woman WriterChapter 4. Circles of SupportChapter 5. Assuming SpinsterhoodPart III: Representing Two CulturesChapter 6. The Juvenilia: Convenient Ambiguities Chapter 7. The "Middle" Fictions: Visible ConflictsChapter 8. Pride and Prejudice: Cultural Duality and Feminist Literary Criticism NotesIndex