Jane Austen Among Women

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3345-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaplan, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Divided Loyalties

Chapter 1. Genteel Domesticity

Chapter 2. Compliant Women
Chapter 3. The Women's Culture

Part II: Portraits of the Woman Writer
Chapter 4. Circles of Support
Chapter 5. Assuming Spinsterhood
Part III: Representing Two Cultures
Chapter 6. The Juvenilia: Convenient Ambiguities

Chapter 7. The "Middle" Fictions: Visible Conflicts
Chapter 8. Pride and Prejudice: Cultural Duality and Feminist Literary Criticism

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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