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Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

4 reviews
Claudia L. Johnson

Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx), 1988

excellent polital reading of Jane Austin's books
I have enjoyed Jane Austin's books for a long time. Claudia Johnson helped me see how the books would be seen in Austin's time which increased my understanding and love of the books. As an example, Elizabeth Bennett is an unconventional heroine. Her laughter and energy was extremely unusual and was the sort of behavior that conservative fiction and propriety books of the time saw as ...

Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics)

3 reviews
Jane Austen

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

Austen is brilliant!
I have been a Jane Austen fan for years, admiring her subtle, clever humor and sharp observations. I had never read any of the tales contained in this volume -- in fact, I had never heard of three of them -- but I found myself delighted by The Watsons and Sanditon, wishing that Jane Austen had lived to complete these two lively stories. I found Northanger Abbey rather tame; in fact, as I ...

Jane Austen's relics and the treasures of the East Room.(Essay): An article from: Persuasions: The Jane ...
Claudia L. Johnson

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 6158 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Jane Austen's relics and the ...

Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, ...
Claudia L. Johnson

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men?upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by ...

Pride and Prejudice, A Longman Cultural Edition (Longman Cultural Editions)

1 review
Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson, ...

Longman, 2002

excellent for students
This is THE edition of Pride and Prejudice. I teach English, and I asked my school to order this edition for my students, and the Penguin Classics edition showed up instead. I nearly swore at the person involved. Of course I restrained myself. Somewhat. The materials in this book to aid student understand surpass the Penguin Classics by a mile--everything from the background material (the ...

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

1 review

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Delightful Scholarship
While reading a library's copy of The Cambridge Companion of Mary Wollstonecraft, I was gripped with a desire to own my own copy and promptly ordered it. Having worked with Wollstonecraft material, I found this collection of articles to provide the most informative and best supported coverage of Wollstonecraft's works and thought I have seen as yet. If you need a good scholarly introduction to ...

Sense and Sensibility (Norton Critical Editions)

1 review
Jane Austen

W. W. Norton, 2001

a five star book with a 0 star critical apparatus
Sense and Sensibility is a work of wit intelligence and genius--the critical apparatus and here I mean the work of modern critics is the work of those "favored" by stupidity. With the exception of Raymond Williams important article from "Keywords" --the critics are informed by a feminism that might be called Sexual Stalinism. Critics with agendas are always reductive, unreflective and in the ...

Mansfield Park (Norton Critical Editions)

87 reviews
Jane Austen

W. W. Norton, 1998

Not about imperialism or slavery
Since Edward Said wrote his foolish piece on Mansfield Park it has become de rigeur to attach agendas that reflect the intramural (ie bogus) leftism of the academy to novels (sorry texts) Even so this effort to do so in Mansfield Park is particularly outlandish. In fact the question "What is Mansfield Park about" is less interesting than the question "what is it like to read Mansfield Park" To ...

A Companion to Jane Austen (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Claudia L. Johnson, Clara Tuite

Blackwell Publishers, 2009

Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, "A Companion to Jane Austen" provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. This work: provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship; functions both as a scholarly reference as well as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen ...

Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics)

1 review
Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey!
Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is the novel that almost wasn't. We know from Cassandra Austen's notes that her sister Jane wrote it during 1798-1799, prepared it for publication in 1803, and sold it to publishers Crosby & Company of London only to never see it in print. It languished on the publisher's shelf for six years until Austen, as perplexed as any authoress who was paid for a manuscript, ...

Children of Alcoholics : Selected Readings, Volume II
David W. Rowden, Ellen R. Morehouse, ...

National Association for Children of Alcoholics, 2000

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.(Book Review): An article from: Albion
Claudia L. Johnson

North American Conference on British Studies, 2004

This digital document is an article from Albion, published by North American Conference on British Studies on June 22, 2004. The length of the article is 924 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Mary Wollstonecraft and the ...

Global Health Challenges for Human Security (Studies in Global Equity)
Charles Darwin Adams, Sam Arie, ...

Global Equity Initiative, Harvard University, 2004

The goals of health and human security are fundamentally valued in all societies, yet the breadth of their interconnections are not properly understood. This volume explores the evolving relationship between health and security in today's interdependent world, and offers policy guidelines for global health action. This volume underscores three basic principles. First, recent developments in the changing security landscape present ...

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