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Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions

Subversive Laughter, Embodied History

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  1. Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Did Jane Austen Really Mean That?

    • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Pages 1-28

  3. Bejeweling the Clandestine Body/Bawdy: The Miniature Spaces of Sense and Sensibility

    • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Pages 29-67

  4. The Anxieties and “Felicities of Rapid Motion”: Animated Ideology in Pride and Prejudice

    • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Pages 69-102

  5. Fashioning the Body: Cross-Dressing, Dressing, Undressing, and Dressage in Northanger Abbey

    • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Pages 103-136

  6. Making and Improving: Fallen Women, Masquerades, and Erotic Humor in Mansfield Park

    • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Pages 137-158

  7. “Praying to Cupid for a Cure”: Venereal Disease, Prostitution, and the Marriage Market in Emma

    • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Pages 159-180

  8. “Unbecoming Conjunctions”: Comic Mourning and the Female Gaze in Persuasion

    • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Pages 181-205

  9. Conclusion

    • Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Pages 207-209

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 211-275
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Austen'sUnbecomingConjunctions is a contemporary study of all Jane Austen's writings focusing on her representation of women, sexuality, the material objects, and linguistic patterns by which this sexuality was expressed. Heydt-Stevenson demonstrates the subtle, vulgar, and humorous ways Austen uses human bodies, objects, and activities (fashion, jewelry, crafts, popular literature, travel and tourism, money, and courtship rituals) to convey sexuality and sexual appetites. Through the sexual subtext, Heydt-Stevenson proposes, Austen satirized contemporary sexual hypocrisy; overcame the stereotypes of women authors as sexually inhibited, sheltered, or repressed; and addressed as sophisticated and worldly an audience as Byron's. Thus through her careful reading of all the Austen texts in light of the language of eroticism, both traditional and contemporary, Heydt-Stevenson re-evaluates Austen's audience, the novels, and her role as a writer.

About the author

JILL HEYDT-STEVENSON is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, USA.

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