You-Me Park, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by:
* examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire
* revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular context
* exploring the ways in which the study of Austen's novels raises fresh issues for post-colonial criticism.
Bringing together work by highly-respected critics from four continents and a range of disciplines, this newly paperbacked volume allows sometimes surprising and always fascinating new insights into some of the most frequently studied - and best loved - novels in the English language.
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A cutting edge reappraisal of classical literature using postcolonial methodology
Rereading of Austen from a postcolonial perspective: Jane Austen and postcolonial studies are strong selling subjects
Symptomatic of shift in postcolonial studies away from analysing postcolonial writers and writing, to looking at classical works/writers
Strong US and Canada market; also South Asia/East Asis
Explosion of interest in Austen (TV reworkings and films) which has been a commercial success
Part 1: Introduction Austen in the World: Postcolonial Mappings Part 2: Austen in the World Jane Austen Goes to the Seaside English Identity and the 'West Indian' Schoolgirl Learning to Ride at Mansfield Park Austen's Treacherous Ivory: Female Patriotism, Domestic Ideology, and Empire Domestic Retrenchment, Colonial Expansion, and the Traffic of Improvement The Property Plots of Mansfield Park Clara Tuite Of Windows and Country Walks Frames of Space and Movement in 1990s Austen Adaptations Part 3: Austen Abroad Reluctant Janeites: Daughterly Value in Jane Austen and Sarat Chatterjee's Jane Austen Goes to India Emily Eden's home Thoughts from Abroad Farewell to Jane Austen Uses of realism in Vikram Seths Suitable Boy Father's Daughters: Critical Realism Examines Patriarchy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Pak Wanso's A Faltering Afternoon [Hwichongkorinun Ohu] Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order Part 4: Poem To a 'Jane Austen' class at Ibadan University
This cutting-edge volume bridges two significant bodies of recent Austen scholarship, one emphasizing the issue of gender and one centralising the history of colonialism and slavery.
This cutting-edge volume bridges two significant bodies of recent Austen scholarship, one emphasising the issue of gender and one centralising the history of colonialism and slavery.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1: Introduction Austen in the World: Postcolonial Mappings Part 2: Austen in the World Jane Austen Goes to the Seaside English Identity and the 'West Indian' Schoolgirl Learning to Ride at Mansfield Park Austen's Treacherous Ivory: Female Patriotism, Domestic Ideology, and Empire Domestic Retrenchment, Colonial Expansion, and the Traffic of Improvement The Property Plots of Mansfield Park Clara Tuite Of Windows and Country Walks Frames of Space and Movement in 1990s Austen Adaptations Part 3: Austen Abroad Reluctant Janeites: Daughterly Value in Jane Austen and Sarat Chatterjee's Jane Austen Goes to India Emily Eden's home Thoughts from Abroad Farewell to Jane Austen Uses of realism in Vikram Seths Suitable Boy Father's Daughters: Critical Realism Examines Patriarchy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Pak Wanso's A Faltering Afternoon [Hwichongkorinun Ohu] Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order Part 4: Poem To a 'Jane Austen' class at Ibadan University
Klappentext
This cutting-edge volume bridges two significant bodies of recent Austen scholarship, one emphasizing the issue of gender and one centralising the history of colonialism and slavery.
