Title: Jane Austen, feminism and fiction /
Authors: Kirkham, Margaret.
Publisher: Harvester Press : Barnes & Noble Books,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Austen, Jane, Political and social views.; Austen, Jane,; Feminism and literature.; Women in literature; Feminism and literature England History; Women and literature England History; Feminist fiction, English History and criticism.
Abstract: A study of Jane Austen's novels in the context of eighteenth-century feminist ideas.
Contents: Introduction: Feminism and Fiction 1694-1798 -- Mary Astell to Catherine Macauley: Women, Morals and Education -- 'A New Species of Writing' -- Sir Charles Grandison -- Women as Authors: 1788-98 -- A Vindication of the Rights of Women -- The 'Great Wollstonecraft Scandal of 1798 -- The Feminist Controvery and the Received Biography -- Residence in Bath -- The Curious History of Mrs. Ashton Dennis (M.A.D.) -- Scott' s Review of Emma -- Comedy and the Austen Heroines: The Early Novels -- Sense and Sensibility -- Nothanger Abbey -- Pride and Prejudice -- Kotzebue and Theatrical Allusion in Mansfield Park and Emma -- Mansfied Park -- Emma -- Persuasion and Sandition -- Poscript: Jane Austen and the Critical Tradition.