Jane Austen's civilized women : morality, gender and the civilizing process
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Jane Austen's civilized women : morality, gender and the civilizing process
（Gender and genre, 9）
Pickering & Chatto, 2012
- : hbk
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Juvenilia: Untying the Knots
- Chapter 2 Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey : Riot in the Brain
- Chapter 3 Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice : Allowing for Difference
- Chapter 4 Mansfield Park : Emancipating 'Puny' Fanny Price
- Chapter 5 Emma : The Art of Quarrelling
- Chapter 6 Persuasion : Developing an 'Elasticity of Mind'
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