Jane Austen among women
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Jane Austen among women
(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
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Jane Austen among women / Deborah Kaplan
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Jane Austen among women / Deborah Kaplan
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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
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Index
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