Jane Austen's civilized women : morality, gender and the civilizing process
"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,...
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| OCLC: | 779864881 |
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| Language: | English |
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London ; Brookfield, Vt. :
Pickering & Chatto,
2012.
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| Series: | Gender and genre ;
no. 9. |
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| Format: | Thesis Monograph Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
Table of 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.'