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The Politics of Jane Austen

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  • © 1999

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  1. Edward Neill
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: The Politics of ‘Jane Austen’

    • Edward Neill
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Canny ‘Becomes’ the Uncanny: Northanger Abbey

    • Edward Neill
    Pages 15-30

  4. A Sensitive Subject: Sense and Sensibility

    • Edward Neill
    Pages 31-50

  5. Pride and Prejudice: or Property and Propriety?

    • Edward Neill
    Pages 51-69

  6. ‘Capital Gratifications’ and the Spirit of Mansfield

    • Edward Neill
    Pages 70-94

  7. Imagining Emma Imagining: Emma

    • Edward Neill
    Pages 95-111

  8. ‘Jane’s Fighting Ships’: Persuasion as Cultural Critique

    • Edward Neill
    Pages 112-135

  9. Props and Properties: Social Imaginaries in Recent Screen Adaptations

    • Edward Neill
    Pages 136-146

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 147-175
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About this book

Jane Austen is a formative influence on how we think about 'England' and 'Englishness', about class, ideology and gender issues. But the critical convoy for 'Jane', as she is patronizingly styled, aligns her with conservative views which her texts entertain - but don't finally sign up for. In fact, as Edward Neill points out in this devastating new study, it is possible to show that 'Tory Jane' is largely illusion, and that much traditional critical effort has been fundamentally misdirected. This exhilarating book seeks to 'liberate' the reading of Jane Austen by offering a very different critical inflection from those of traditional critical appropriations.

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Readers who share Neill's enthusiasm for television will enjoy his animated discussion of recent TV versions of Austen's novels. Studies in English Literature

About the author

EDWARD NEILL works as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University. He has published widely on Modernist poetry, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, and many other topics in a wide range of journals.

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