
Jane Austen
Meenakshi Mukherjee(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 23. August 1991
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-333-39262-1 (ISBN)
Description
Combining a feminist perspective with a non-western reading of Jane Austen, the text considers how being a woman shaped Austen's literary attitudes and social thinking. The author brings to bear her own post-colonial consciousness in understanding the economics, geography and social conventions of Austen's world. Analysis of the novels focuses on the way Jane Austen's treatment of inter-related issues such as marriage and professions, space and enclosure, art and life, language and artiface, provide the dynamics of narrative in her work. This text recognizes Austen's work as an interface between two sets of opposing impulses. The author, Meenakshi Mukherjee has also published two other titles - "The Twice Born Fiction - Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English" and "Realism and Reality - The Novel and Society in India". She has also edited "Another India". Other titles in the series include "Women in Romanticism", "Sylvia Plath", "Charlotte Bronte", "Mrs Gaskell" and "Eudora Welty".
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
diagrams, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 126 mm
Weight
260 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-39262-1 (9780333392621)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The injured body - women and the novel; but you know we must marry - marriage and profession; to hear my uncle talk of the West Indies - the outer world; crowd in a small room space and enclosure; to admire Pope is no more than proper literature, art and artifice; speak well enough to be unintelligible language and communication.