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Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process
Author(s): Enit Karafili Steiner (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848931778
- ISBN-13: 9781848931770
Book Description
Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen’s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This ambitious, meticulously researched and wide-ranging study is likely to be of most use to critically engaged scholars of Austen … [it] provides some genuinely new close readings, and insightful comments on much-read and discussed novels.’ The BARS Review ‘Steiner has written a complex but rewarding study of Austen’s novels, appraising the role of society, gender, and feminist interpersonal relations. [This is] an informative addition to the Austen library.’ JASNA News ‘Steiner’s text is unique both for its broad-ranging philosophical treatment of Austen’s work, and for the sustained feminist reading that carefully links Austen’s civilising process to the concerns of contemporary readers.’ Cercles
About the Author
Enit Karafili Steiner
