Jane Austen's Civilized Women

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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."--P. [4] of cover.

subjects: Austen, jane, 1775-1817,  English literature, history and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  Civil society in literature,  English literature, history and criticism, 18th century,  Women in literature,  Société civile dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Characters,  Women