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American feminist criticism
Ann Lefroy
Author_Deborah Kaplan
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Christopher Edward Lefroy
courtship novel
domestic femininity
domestic ideology
Dorothy Chapman
Elizabeth Chute
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female friendship
feminist literary criticism
Henrietta Hicks-Beach
Jane Austen Society
Sir Edward Knatchbull
women writers
Product details
- ISBN 9781421433455
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2020
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Deborah Kaplan is associate professor of English at George Mason University.
