Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism
Devoney . Ed(S): Looser
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Description for Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism
hardcover. Editor(s): Looser, Devoney. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 415.
In recent decades the vision of Austen as a subversive or rebellious author has appeared most forcefully in the varied scholarship of feminist literary critics. Some feminists have fashioned an Austen more closely linked to what Juliet Mitchell has called 'The Longest Revolution' (the women's movement) than to the French Revolution; others have vehemently disagreed. Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism involves - among other things - a reassessment of these versions of Austen's relationship to feminisms. By foregrounding issues of artistic merit, genre, and history, many literary critics have effectively ignored issues of gender in their studies of Austen; ... Read more
In recent decades the vision of Austen as a subversive or rebellious author has appeared most forcefully in the varied scholarship of feminist literary critics. Some feminists have fashioned an Austen more closely linked to what Juliet Mitchell has called 'The Longest Revolution' (the women's movement) than to the French Revolution; others have vehemently disagreed. Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism involves - among other things - a reassessment of these versions of Austen's relationship to feminisms. By foregrounding issues of artistic merit, genre, and history, many literary critics have effectively ignored issues of gender in their studies of Austen; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
Number of Pages
197
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312123673
SKU
V9780312123673
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99-15
About Devoney . Ed(S): Looser
DEVONEY LOOSER is the author of British Women Writers and the Writing of History (2000) and the editor of Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue (1997). She is assistant professor at Louisiana State University and is a member of the board of directors of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
Reviews for Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism
'Including essays by some of the most stimulating specialists in the novel and the 'new' literary period, 1770-1830, this provocative, sometimes daring, collection will quickly become required reading for all engaged with applications of feminist theories, with women in the literary marketplace, and, of course, with Jane Austen.' Paula Backscheider