Jane Austen among Women - Softcover

Kaplan, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421433451 ISBN 13: 9781421433455

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

"" Jane Austen Among Women is a stimulating new reading of Austen's life and work. The tone is balanced and authoritative, the style is graceful and sometimes engagingly humorous, and the approach is fresh, challenging, and very illuminating."―Juliet McMaster, University of Alberta. "Kaplan builds a convincing picture of Austen's own women's culture, and her mode of argument is unusually vivid, subtle, and sensitive."― Times Literary Supplement"

"Kaplan builds a convincing picture of Austen's own women's culture, and her mode of argument is unusually vivid, subtle, and sesnitive."

(Times Literary Supplement)

"Jane Austen Among Women is a stimulating new reading of Austen's life and work. The tone is balanced and authoritative, the style is graceful and sometimes engagingly humorous, and the approach is fresh, challenging, and very illuminating."

(Juliet McMaster, University of Alberta.)

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1421433451
• ISBN 13: 9781421433455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258