Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon

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Cambridge University Press, 2002 M02 28 - 242 pages
The first full-length scholarly monograph to examine Jane Austen's writings within the traditions of Romanticism. Tuite's study presents a series of historically contextualized readings of Austen's juvenilia (Catharine, or The Bower and The History of England), Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Austen's posthumously published novel, Sanditon, to examine ways in which Romantic-period definitions of nation, culture and literature continue to function in contemporary readings of Austen and her period.

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Contents

tracking the canonical Romantic and postRomantic Austen
1
Aunt Janes early workings and betweenities closet dramas of literary apprenticeship
23
Sensibility free indirect style and the Romantic technology of discretion
56
Breeding heritage culture Mansfield Park Reflections on the Revolution in France and the glorious revolutions of the country house
98
Austens Romantic fragment Sanditon and the sexual politics of land speculation
156
Epilogue
192
Notes
194
Select bibliography
225
Index
236
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Clara Tuite is a Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is an associate editor of The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832 (1999). She has published articles on Gothic literature in Eighteenth-Century Life and Romanticism on the Net.

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