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Cover of Jane Austen’s Civilized Women

Jane Austen’s Civilized Women Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process

  • Published: 6 Oct 2015
  • DOI: 10.4324/9781315655598
  • Print ISBN: 9781848931770
  • eBook ISBN: 9781315655598

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 and postmodern feminist positions on moral development and interpersonal relations.

Austen is presented as a writer who not only participated in late eighteenth-century debates, but who is able to address twenty-first-century concerns of a theoretical and practical nature.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction
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    1
    The Juvenilia: Untying the Knots
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    2
    Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey: Riot in the Brain
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    3
    Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice: Allowing for Difference
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    4
    Mansfield Park: Emancipating ‘Puny’ Fanny Price
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    5
    Emma: The Art of Quarrelling
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    Persuasion: Developing an ‘Elasticity of Mind’
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    Afterword
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    Back Matter