Subjects
Jane Austen's Civilized Women:
Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process
Enit K Steiner
Gender and Genre
978 1 84893 177 0: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
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Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen’s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process and postmodern feminist positions on moral development and interpersonal relations.
Austen is presented as a writer who not only participated in late eighteenth-century debates, but who is able to address twenty-first-century concerns of a theoretical and practical nature.
Readership
Literature, Eighteenth-Century Studies and Gender Studies
Contents
Introduction
1 The Juvenilia: Untying the Knots
2 Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey: Eyes Preparing for Future Mischief
3 Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice: Allowing for Difference
4 Mansfield Park: Emancipating "Puny" Fanny Price
5 Emma: The Art of Quarrelling
6 Persuasion: Developing an "Elasticity of Mind"