Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process

Enit Karafili Steiner

Jane Austen's Civilized Women

Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process

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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 and postmodern feminist positions on moral development and interpersonal relations. Austen is presented as a writer who not only participated in late eighteenth-century debates, but who is able to address twenty-first-century concerns of a theoretical and practical nature.

"'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.'"

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Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

Dedication
pp viii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-26

1 - The Juvenilia: Untying the Knots
pp 27-46

2 - Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey: Riot in the Brain
pp 47-74

3 - Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice: Allowing for Difference
pp 75-104

4 - Mansfield Park: Emancipating ‘Puny’ Fanny Price
pp 105-128

5 - Emma: The Art of Quarrelling
pp 129-154

6 - Persuasion: Developing an ‘Elasticity of Mind’
pp 155-180

Afterword
pp 181-186

Notes
pp 187-210

Works Cited
pp 211-222

Index
pp 223-228

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