Jane Austen The Woman

Author : Deborah Kaplan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801849705

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Jane Austen Among Women by Deborah Kaplan Pdf

Originally published in 1992. 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 women 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.

Author : George Holbert Tucker
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 0312126883

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Jane Austen the Woman by George Holbert Tucker Pdf

Author : LeRoy W Smith,Bryan Bardine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349171842

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Jane Austen And The Drama Of Women by LeRoy W Smith,Bryan Bardine Pdf

Author : Lynda A. Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319507361

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Women and ‘Value’ in Jane Austen’s Novels by Lynda A. Hall Pdf

Jane Austen’s minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the economic and moral value structures are exposed. Just as the newly-minted paper money was struggling to express its value, so do Austen’s minor female characters struggle to assert their intrinsic value within a marketplace that expresses their worth as bearers of dowries. Austen’s minor female characters expose the plight of women who settle for transactional marriages, become speculators and predators, or become superfluous women who have left the marriage market and battle for personal significance and existence. These characters illustrate the ambiguity of value within the marriage market economy, exposing women’s limited choices. This book employs a socio-historical framework, considering the rise of a competitive consumer economy juxtaposed with affective individualism.

Author : Kathleen Anderson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438472270

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Jane Austen's Women by Kathleen Anderson Pdf

An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen. Why does Jane Austen “mania” continue unabated in a postmodern world? How does the brilliant Regency novelist speak so personally to today’s women that they view her as their best friend? Jane Austen’s Women answers these questions by exploring Austen’s affirming yet challenging vision of both who her dynamic female characters are, and who they become. This important new work analyzes the heroines’ relationships to body, mind, spirit, environment, and society. It reveals how, despite a restrictive patriarchal culture, these women achieve greatness. In clear, lively prose, Kathleen Anderson shares original theoretical insights from twenty years of studying Austen, and illuminates the novels as guidebooks on how to become an Austenian heroine in one’s everyday life. This engaging book will appeal to a broad readership: the serious student, the general lit-lover, and the Austen neophyte alike. Kathleen Anderson is Professor of English at Palm Beach Atlantic University and the coauthor (with Susan Jones) of Jane Austen’s Guide to Thrift: An Independent Woman’s Advice on Living Within One’s Means.

Author : Lyndon J. Dominique
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460406137

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The Woman of Colour by Lyndon J. Dominique Pdf

The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of a slaveholder, must travel from Jamaica to England, and as a condition of her father’s will either marry her Caucasian first cousin or become dependent on his mercenary elder brother and sister-in-law. As Olivia decides between these two conflicting possibilities, her letters recount her impressions of Britain and its inhabitants as only a black woman could record them. She gives scathing descriptions of London, Bristol, and the British, as well as progressive critiques of race, racism, and slavery. The narrative follows her life from the heights of her arranged marriage to its swift descent into annulment and destitution, only to culminate in her resurrection as a self-proclaimed “widow” who flouts the conventional marriage plot. The appendices, which include contemporary reviews of the novel, historical documents on race and inheritance in Jamaica, and examples of other women of colour in early British prose fiction, will further inspire readers to rethink issues of race, gender, class, and empire from an African woman’s perspective.

Author : Claire Boyle,Dave Eggers,Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1952119235

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McSweeney's Issue 65 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Claire Boyle,Dave Eggers,Valeria Luiselli Pdf

McSweeney's 65: Plundered spans the Americas, from a bone-strewn Peruvian desert to inland South Texas, and considers the violence that shaped it. In fifteen bracing stories, the collection delves into extraction, exploitation, and, crucially, defiance. How does a community, an individual, resist the plundering of land and peoples? Guest-edited by acclaimed author Valeria Luiselli, with Heather Cleary, Issue 65 brings together stories of stolen artifacts and endless job searches, of nationality-themed amusement parks and cultish banana plantations. Including contributors from Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, the United States, and more, Plundered is a panoramic portrait of a hemisphere on fire. Praise for McSweeney's Quarterly A key barometer of the literary climate.-The New York Times McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. -Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226401393

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Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson Pdf

"The best (and the best written) book about Austen that has appeared in the last three decades."—Nina Auerbach, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "By looking at the ways in which Austen domesticates the gothic in Northanger Abbey, examines the conventions of male inheritance and its negative impact on attempts to define the family as a site of care and generosity in Sense and Sensibility, makes claims for the desirability of 'personal happiness as a liberating moral category' in Pride and Prejudice, validates the rights of female authority in Emma, and stresses the benefits of female independence in Persuasion, Johnson offers an original and persuasive reassessment of Jane Austen's thought."—Kate Fullbrook, Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : LeRoy W. Smith
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Sex role in literature
ISBN : 0312439911

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Jane Austen and the Drama of Woman by LeRoy W. Smith Pdf

Author : Jasmine A. Stirling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781547601110

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A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice by Jasmine A. Stirling Pdf

For fans of I Dissent and She Persisted -- and Jane Austen fans of all ages -- a picture book biography about the beloved and enduring writer and how she found her unique voice. Witty and mischievous Jane Austen grew up in a house overflowing with words. As a young girl, she delighted in making her family laugh with tales that poked fun at the popular novels of her time, stories that featured fragile ladies and ridiculous plots. Before long, Jane was writing her own stories-uproariously funny ones, using all the details of her life in a country village as inspiration. In times of joy, Jane's words burst from her pen. But after facing sorrow and loss, she wondered if she'd ever write again. Jane realized her writing would not be truly her own until she found her unique voice. She didn't know it then, but that voice would go on to capture readers' hearts and minds for generations to come.

Author : Rachel M. Brownstein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231153904

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Why Jane Austen? by Rachel M. Brownstein Pdf

Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.

Author : Helena Kelly
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785781179

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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly Pdf

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.

Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Balzer + Bray
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0062373307

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Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen by Deborah Hopkinson Pdf

A gorgeous and inspiring picture book biography of Jane Austen, one of the most beloved writers of all time, from award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of our greatest writers. But before that, she was just an ordinary girl. In fact, young Jane was a bit quiet and shy; if you had met her back then, you might not have noticed her at all. But she would have noticed you. Jane watched and listened to all the things people around her did and said, and locked those observations away for safekeeping. Jane also loved to read. She devoured everything in her father’s massive library and before long, she began creating her own stories. In her time, the most popular books were grand adventures and romances, but Jane wanted to go her own way...and went on to invent an entirely new kind of novel. Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen includes a timeline and quotes from Austen's most popular novels. Parents and grandparents, as well as teachers and librarians, will enjoy introducing children to Jane Austen through this accessible, beautifully packaged picture book.

Author : Natalie Jenner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250248725

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The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner Pdf

* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.

Author : Manuela Santoni
Publisher : Graphic Universe& 8482
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541526433

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Jane Austen by Manuela Santoni Pdf

This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her much-speculated-upon encounters with Tom Lefroy, a brash law student.