Jane Austen among women

Author(s)

• Kaplan, Deborah

Bibliographic Information

Jane Austen among women

Deborah Kaplan

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992

• : pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780801843600

Description

"'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'

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Divided Loyalties Chapter 1. Genteel Domesticity Chapter 2. Compliant Women Chapter 3. The Women's Culture Part II: Portraits of the Woman Writer Chapter 4. Circles of Support Chapter 5. Assuming Spinsterhood Part III: Representing Two Cultures Chapter 6. The Juvenilia: Convenient Ambiguities Chapter 7. The "Middle" Fictions: Visible Conflicts Chapter 8. Pride and Prejudice: Cultural Duality and Feminist Literary Criticism Notes Index

Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9780801849701

Description

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 from the support of her family, or from woman 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Divided Loyalties Chapter 1. Genteel Domesticity Chapter 2. Compliant Women Chapter 3. The Women's Culture Part II: Portraits of the Woman Writer Chapter 4. Circles of Support Chapter 5. Assuming Spinsterhood Part III: Representing Two Cultures Chapter 6. The Juvenilia: Convenient Ambiguities Chapter 7. The "Middle" Fictions: Visible Conflicts Chapter 8. Pride and Prejudice: Cultural Duality and Feminist Literary Criticism Notes Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA17236876
• ISBN:
  • 080184360X
  • 0801849705
• LCCN: 91041186
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 245 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR4036
  • DC20 : 823/.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
  • LCSH : Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century