Romantic Austen

Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon

Clara Tuite author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:21st Jan '08

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Tuite's study presents a series of historically contextualized readings of Austen's writing, including juvenilia, 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.A full-length scholarly monograph examining Jane Austen's writings within the traditions of Romanticism. It argues that Austen's central position within the literary canon can only be fully understood by locating her work within Romantic cultural traditions. Taking the contemporary Austen revival as its cue, the 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. An investigation of the sexual politics of national culture, heritage culture and literary canon-formation informs the study's discussion of the relationship between Romanticism, Austen and the literary canon.

'The most exhilirating aspects … lie in Tuite's conceptualization of Austen's oeuvre and in her brilliantly inventive, distinctive ways of opening up the texts to new readings, new echoes and new contexts.' European Romantic Review

ISBN: 9780521054393

Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 430g

264 pages