Gender and Genre - 9: Jane Austen's Civilized Women
Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process
- 236 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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.