Title: Reshaping the sexes in Sense and sensibility
First published: 1998
Description: Moreland Perkins's Reshaping the Sexes in "Sense and Sensibility" is an accessible yet sophisticated exploration of Jane Austen's revision and reversal of sexual stereotypes. He argues that Austen's first published novel embodies her most sustained effort at correcting dominant concepts of gender in her era. Through an engaging, often witty analysis of the text, he demonstrates how the novel's protagonists deviate from ruling ideas of their sexes and reveal Austen's own feminist tendencies.
Subjects: Women intellectuals in literature, Sex role in literature, Women and literature, Man-woman relationships in literature, Heroines in literature, History, Austen, jane, 1775-1817, Women intellectuals, Heroines
Places: England
People: Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR4034.S43 P47 1998