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Romancing Jane AustenPride and Prejudice: ‘Lydia’s gape’

Romancing Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: ‘Lydia’s gape’ [Terry Castle asked us recently to look seriously at the question: ‘How bad are most of the novels produced by English women writers in the decades before Jane Austen?’278 Since Jane Spencer demonstrated that Austen did not emerge fully formed from the mists of women’s pre-literate history, we have been rightly preoccupied with documenting the relatively long and complex history of women’s writing prior to Austen. Perhaps this has drawn our attention from acknowledging the specific nature of her achievement in the context of that history.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Romancing Jane AustenPride and Prejudice: ‘Lydia’s gape’

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Tauchert, Ashley
Romancing Jane Austen — Oct 10, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
ISBN
978-1-349-54635-0
Pages
73 –92
DOI
10.1057/9780230599697_4
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Abstract

[Terry Castle asked us recently to look seriously at the question: ‘How bad are most of the novels produced by English women writers in the decades before Jane Austen?’278 Since Jane Spencer demonstrated that Austen did not emerge fully formed from the mists of women’s pre-literate history, we have been rightly preoccupied with documenting the relatively long and complex history of women’s writing prior to Austen. Perhaps this has drawn our attention from acknowledging the specific nature of her achievement in the context of that history.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Female Character; Young Lady; False Consciousness; Happy Ending; Rational Autonomy

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