Women And Value In Jane Austen S Novels

Author : Lynda A. Hall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : LeRoy W Smith,Bryan Bardine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Mary Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136698040

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Jane Austen and the State (RLE Jane Austen) by Mary Evans Pdf

Jane Austen is often associated with conservatism and her novels are often seen as light entertainment depicting a vanished world and its manners. Mary Evan's study, first published in 1987, seeks to contradict the conventional wisdom regarding Austen's social and political leanings and argues that far from endorsing established and conservative views Jane Austen advances a radical critique of the morality of bourgeois capitalism and demonstrates a concern for the articulation of women's rights and views whilst simultaneously drawing attention to the vulnerability of women in the economic marketplace. Mary Evans adopts a multidisciplinary approach and her book will appeal to anyone who is interested in Jane Austen's writing as well as those concerned with the moral basis of contemporary politics.

Author : Kathleen Anderson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Ilona Dobosiewicz
Publisher : Wydawn. Universytetu Opolskiego
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Conduct of life in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020972068

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Female Relationships in Jane Austen's Novels by Ilona Dobosiewicz Pdf

Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher : London : W. Scott
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : PRNC:32101074876242

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Life of Jane Austen by Goldwin Smith Pdf

Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Deborah Kaplan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421433462

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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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Discussions of Jane Austen by Anonim Pdf

Author : Enit Karafili Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317322535

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Jane Austen's Civilized Women by Enit Karafili Steiner Pdf

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.

Author : J. F. Burrows
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000784817

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Jane Austen's Emma by J. F. Burrows Pdf

First published in 1968, Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel. While often pausing to analyse and comment on major contemporary critics, Dr. Burrows provides a detailed insight into this outstanding novel. He has clarified certain of the book’s qualities, placing detail back into its proper context and perspective. Comic relief is contrasted with the serious and the sensitivity and capacity for change of her chief personages and the subtle use of such of Austen’s words as ‘sensible’ and ‘amiable’ are deftly treated. A select bibliography is included. This book will be of interest to students of literature, women’s studies, gender studies as well as to casual readers of Jane Austen’s novels.

Author : LeRoy W. Smith
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195175301

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Jane Austen's Emma by Fiona J. Stafford Pdf

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Author : E. M. Dadlez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1444310402

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Mirrors to One Another by E. M. Dadlez Pdf

A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen’sliterary themes and characters with David Hume’s views onmorality and human nature. Argues that the normative perspectives endorsed in JaneAusten's novels are best characterized in terms of a Humeanapproach, and that the merits of Hume's account of ethical,aesthetic and epistemic virtue are vividly illustrated by Austen'swriting. Illustrates how Hume and Austen complement one another, eachproviding a lens that allows us to expand and elaborate on theideas of the other Proposes that literature may serve as a thought experiment,articulating hypothetical cases which allow the reader to test hermoral intuitions Contributes to ongoing debates on the philosophy of literature,ethics, and emotion

Author : Léonie Villard,R. Brimley Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136697975

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Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen) by Léonie Villard,R. Brimley Johnson Pdf

First published in 1924, this unique title provides an extremely valuable early Twentieth Century perspective on Jane Austen, offering analysis from both sides of the channel. The book includes both a translated study of Jane Austen by French academic Léonie Villard, and a study by influential biographer and critic, R. Brimley Johnson. Johnson's study, made with particular reference to the unpublished epistolary novel, Love and Friendship, seeks to redress the balance of contemporary criticism of Austen, challenging the established links between Austen and Nineteenth Century realism, and suggesting instead that her work owes a great deal to the conventions of romance. He also demonstrates how her art transformed from the parody of Nothanger Abbey to the portraiture of the later novels. Léonie Villard's ambitious work analyses a variety of topics relating to Austen's work, including women and marriage, psychology, satire, the gentry and the lasting value and scope of the novels. All in all, a very engaging, informative and insightful reissue.