Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel - Hardcover

Johnson, Claudia L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226401383 ISBN 13: 9780226401386

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Synopsis

Johnson, Claudia L.

About this title

About the Author:

Claudia L. Johnson is the Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton University.

From Library Journal:

Johnson places Jane Austen in a tradition of 18th-century women novelists who, while not overtly reformist, are skeptical of conservative ideology. These novels use the vocabulary of the family as a paradigm for the condition of the state, focusing on "the discourse rather than the representation of politics." Johnson, widely read in 18th-century philosophy, social analysis, and fiction, speedily rescues Austen from the "a-political" charge often leveled against her. She is less successful on the novels themselves, tending to isolate issues and insights without following through on their role in the novel or oeuvre as a wholeas when she sees Austen's heroes as exemplifying patriarchal positions without discussing their function as the object of the heroine's love. Suzanne Juhasz, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0226401383
• ISBN 13: 9780226401386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186