Selected by "Choice" magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive.
Reading the history of her novels' reception through other histories literary, aesthetic, and social "The...
Selected by "Choice" magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded...
Human Rights Under African Constitutions Realizing the Promise for Ourselves Edited by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im "The contributors maintain that a well-informed citizenry is the most powerful (and likely only) force for creating the political will necessary to effect change at the national level. There is no sitting on the fence. . . . The fundamental belief here is that human rights will only be realized once the African people claim their rights, make them their own, and demand their respect."--Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights Some of the most massive and persistent violations of...
Human Rights Under African Constitutions Realizing the Promise for Ourselves Edited by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im "The contributors maintain that a well...
