Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine

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dc.contributor.authorWilson, Cheryl A.
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Humanities & Social Scienceen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-22T14:42:17Z
dc.date.available2017-09-22T14:42:17Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionen_US
dc.description.abstractThis book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings. Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was constructed in fiction, criticism, and biography over the course of the nineteenth century. For the Victorians, Austen became a kind of cultural shorthand, representing a distant, yet not too-distant, historical past that the Victorians both drew on and defined themselves against with regard to such topics as gender, literature, and national identity. Austen influenced the development of the Victorian literary heroine, and when cast as a heroine herself, was deployed in debates about the responsibilities of the novelist and the ability of fiction to shape social and cultural norms. Thus, the study is as much, if not more, about the Victorians than it is about Jane Austen.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://ezproxy.stevenson.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat00831a&AN=sharc.1718617&site=eds-live&scope=siteen_US
dc.format.extent214 pagesen_US
dc.genrebooksen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M21Z41T47
dc.identifierPR4037 .W52 2017
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-62965-0
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-62964-3
dc.identifier.uri10.1007/978-3-319-62965-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/5440
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen_US
dc.subjectAusten, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Characters -- Heroines.en_US
dc.subjectHeroines in literature.en_US
dc.subjectWomen heroes -- England.en_US
dc.subjectLiterary Criticism / American / General.en_US
dc.titleJane Austen and the Victorian Heroineen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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