Jane Austen
Subtitle: Women, Politics, and the Novel
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780226401393
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The reactionary ideology which evolved in England during the 1790s left a rich and paradoxical legacy: even as it required women to be amiably weak, retiring, and docile so to assure the authority, the chivalry, even the identity of men, it not only stimulated but also empowered women's commentary on political affairs.