Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0333638727 ISBN 13: 9780333638729

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995

Riassunto

Received understandings of Jane Austen and her novels have been revised most forcefully in feminist scholarship. Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism reassesses and furthers this critical project. Grappling with literary theoretical innovations concerning gender, genre, nationalism, class, and sexuality, this collection presents new possibilities for understanding Austen's contributions to literary history. The anthology does not deliver a final verdict on whether Austen was or was not a feminist, but rather explores more broadly the links between her writings and feminist discourses - in both her time and our own. The essays, written by established Austen scholars as well as newcomers, suggest the directions that criticism on Austen might take.

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Recensione:

'Including essays by some of the most stimulating specialists in the novel and the 'new' literary period, 1770-1830, this provocative, sometimes daring, collection will quickly become required reading for all engaged with applications of feminist theories, with women in the literary marketplace, and, of course, with Jane Austen.' Paula Backscheider

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0333638727
• ISBN 13: 9780333638729
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 207
• Redattore: Looser Devoney