Jane Austen among women / Deborah Kaplan.
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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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1992]
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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.