| Series |
Gender and genre ; no. 9
Gender and genre ; no. 9. ^A1129325
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| 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.' |
| Abstract |
"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."--P. [4] of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-222) and index. |
| ISBN | 9781848931770 |
| ISBN | 1848931778 |
