Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon

ISBN-13: 9780521808590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 264 str.

Clara Tuite (University of Melbourne)

Opis

This volume is the first to address Jane Austen's writings within the traditions of Romanticism. Tuite's study presents a series of historically contextualized readings of Austen's juvenilia (Catharine, or The Bower and The History of England), Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Austen's posthumously published novel, Sanditon, to examine ways in which Romantic-period definitions of nation, culture and literature continue to function in contemporary readings of Austen and her period.

Recenzje

'The most exhilirating aspects … lie in Tuite's conceptualization of Austen's oeuvre and in her brilliantly inventive, distinctive ways of opening up the texts to new readings, new echoes and new contexts.' European Romantic Review

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on texts used; Introduction. The 'fall into a quotation': tracking the canonical, Romantic and post-Romantic Austen; 1. Aunt Jane's 'early workings' and 'betweenities': closet dramas of literary apprenticeship; 2. Sensibility, free indirect style and the Romantic technology of discretion; 3. Breeding heritage culture: Mansfield Park, Reflections on the Revolution in France and the glorious revolutions of the country house; 4. Austen's Romantic fragment: Sanditon and the sexual politics of land speculation; Epilogue; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.