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

Johnson, Claudia L.

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9780226401393: Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel
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ISBN 10: 0226401391 ISBN 13: 9780226401393
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1990

Synopsis

"The best (and the best written) book about Austen that has appeared in the last three decades."—Nina Auerbach, Journal of English and Germanic Philology

"By looking at the ways in which Austen domesticates the gothic in Northanger Abbey, examines the conventions of male inheritance and its negative impact on attempts to define the family as a site of care and generosity in Sense and Sensibility, makes claims for the desirability of 'personal happiness as a liberating moral category' in Pride and Prejudice, validates the rights of female authority in Emma, and stresses the benefits of female independence in Persuasion, Johnson offers an original and persuasive reassessment of Jane Austen's thought."—Kate Fullbrook, Times Higher Education Supplement

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226401391
ISBN 13 
9780226401393
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
212
Rating
  • 4.12 out of 5 stars
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