Jane Austen Among Women

by Deborah Kaplan

Book Overview

In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist? Was she an isolated genius who rose to fame through sheer talent? Did she draw strength from the support of her family or from women writers who went before her? In Jane Austen among Women, Deborah Kaplan argues that these explanations are either misleading or insufficient. Austen, Kaplan contends, participated actively in a women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421433451
• ISBN13: 9781421433455
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"