Understanding Jane Austen's women : an introduction / Kathleen Anderson.

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Anderson, Kathleen, 1967- [Author]

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computer

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online resource

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9781438472270

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Women in literature

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Electronic Books.

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PR4038 .U534 2018

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface "Nobody doubts her right to have precedence": Jane Austen's Heroine as Universal Subject; Part 1 Women and the Body: Strength, Sex, and Austenian Wellness; Chapter 1 "I am strong enough now to walk very well": Vigor and Femininity in Mansfield Park; Chapter 2 "I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other": Sexual Orthodoxy and the Quest for the Best Mate; The Fickle Female Sex Drive; Resisting Objectification; Resisting Emotional Abuse; Chastity as Truth to Self

Part 2 Women's Natures: Mood, Mind, Spirit, and Female GiftednessChapter 3 "Determined to Be Happy": The Path to Emotional Health in Sense and Sensibility; Chapter 4 "Ingenious or Stupid?": Women's Intelligences, according to "the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress"; "Independent Resources": Mind and Self; "Patroness of a Village": Female Intelligence as Community-Builder; "The Compliment of Attention": The Woman's Audience and the Woman as Audience; "So Very Accomplished": Purity of Selfhood

Chapter 5 "Born to Be Connected": Female Monasticism and Vocation in Austen's NovelsThe Abbess: Austen's Female Spiritual Directors; Contemplative Spiritual Advisor: Fanny Price's Novitiate and Conventual Order; Active Banquet Host: Emma Woodhouse's Growth in Hospitality; Part 3 Women and Others: The Female Self in Environmental, Social, and Imaginative Space; Chapter 6 "Mamma says I am never within": Heroines' Eco-affinities as Identityscapes; Daughter of the Soil: Elizabeth Bennet; A Leaf in Search of a Tree: Marianne Dashwood; "Hurrying into the Shrubbery": Emma Woodhouse

"The Worth of Lyme": Oceanic Anne ElliotConclusion: Sustaining the Self; Chapter 7 "What is the foolish girl about?": Austen's Feminist Fools Speak Out; Chapter 8 "Unpropitious for Heroism": Female Greatness in the Austenian Imagination; Notes; Works Cited; Index

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