Jane Austen among Women /

Jane Austen among Women /

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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 through sheer talent? Did she draw strength from the support of her family, or from woman writers who went before her? In Jane Austen amo...

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Main Author: Kaplan, Deborah, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1992]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Austen, Jane.
Austen, Jane, > (1775-1817) > Critique et interpretation.
Austen, Jane > 1775-1817
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817.
Femmes et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > 19e siecle.
Feminismus
Frau
Novelists, English.
Women and literature.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Novelists, English > 19th century > Biography.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
England.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Divided Loyalties
  • Genteel Domesticity
  • Compliant Women
  • The Women's Culture
  • Portraits of the Woman Writer
  • Circles of Support
  • Assuming Spinsterhood
  • Representing Two Cultures
  • The Juvenilia: Convenient Ambiguities
  • The "Middle" Fictions: Visible Conflicts
  • Pride and Prejudice: Cultural Duality and Feminist Literary Criticism.

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