Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism

1995
ISBN: 978-0-312-12367-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 197 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

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; feminist scholarship provided an important corrective. On the other hand, some feminist criticism, although it approached Austen's texts in innovative ways, gave short shrift to issues of history, literary genre, social context, or artistry. This volume aims implicitly and explicitly to recap second-wave feminist attention to Austen and to suggest new directions that criticism on Austen might take.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Looser, Devoney

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; D.Looser - Jane Austen, Romantic Feminism, and Civil Society; G.Kelly - The Marriage Plot in Austen: Questions of Persistence; L.Mooneyham - Privacy, Privilege, and Poaching in Mansfield Park; E.Gardiner - Pride and Prejudice, Feminist Theory, and the Recapitulation of Unequal Gender Relations; B.Hain, B.Craven, G.Brunner & C.Andre - Jane Austen and the Burden of the (Male) Past: The Case Reexamined; J.Harris - Austen's Handling of Endogamous Unions; G.A.Hudson - 'The Different Sorts of Friendship': Desire in Mansfield Park; M.G.Anderson - Austen, Gender, and Genre; C.Siskin

Über Autor(innen)

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.