... Press 2021 benevolence charity masculine Austen novel Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 45, Number 1, January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8793945 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 7 5 Jane Austen and the Tradition of Masculine Benevolence Marilyn Roberts Waynesburg University Memorialized...

...Marilyn Gaull The College of William & Mary 2004 Review Essay Jane Austen: Afterlives Marilyn Gaull New York University William H. Galperin. The Historical Austen (Philadelphia...

...Janet Aikins Yount Deirdre Le Faye. A Chronology of Jane Austen and Her Family (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. xvi + 776. 7 ills. $150, £96. ISBN 0-521-81064-7 Jane Austen. Juvenili a, ed. Peter Sabor. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ...

... The College of William & Mary 2004 Review Essay Jane Austen: Afterlives Marilyn Gaull New York University William H. Galperin. The Historical Austen (Philadelphia: University of...

... papers in this vol- ume were first presented there. The conference was occasioned by the opening of the Chawton House Library and Study Centre in the Elizabethan manor house in Hampshire once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward. The library enjoys a close association with the University of...

...” immediacy and deviant excesses. Where Wordsworth resists sensibility’s queer eroticism, Jane Austen pushes sensibility to its limits within the conservative climate of Regency Eng- land. Nagle reads Austen, against the critical grain, as a sentimental writer for whom embodied emotion is the...

... 18th-Century Spa (Bath: Ruton, 2002). Pp. 138. £8. ISBN 0-9526326-3-2 Galperin, William H. The Historical Austen (Philidelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2002). Pp. 296. $39.95. ISBN 0-8122-3687-4 Gascoigne, John. The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia (N.Y.: Cambridge...

... Modern Era, vol. 18 (New York: AMS, 2011). Pp. xii + 421. $163.50 Copeland, Edward, and Juliet McMaster, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2011). Pp. xvii + 271. $24.99 paper Cotlar, Seth. Tom Paine’s America: The Rise and Fall of...

... Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1998. Pp. 261. $39.95. ISBN 0-814327222 Barbara Zonitch. Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. Pp...

... com- ponent pleasures. Taste in such circumstances enables writers’ doubled fan- tasies to reflect critically on each other and expose the fantasized social and personal framework in which they move” (34). This is Dr. Johnson’s definition of taste? Or is Jane Austen’s description of a new...

... room of Netherfield, Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet and Miss Bingley were both aware. And just as horses and dogs were being bred true to various types, the differentiation of the laboring from the polite was being sought and encouraged to emphasize the perception of different...

...), especially chapter 3. 14.  The Rambler 14 (5 May 1750), from Works, 3:74. See also Jenny Davidson, Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2004). 15.  The Rambler 14 (5 May 1750), from Works, 3:76. 16.  The Rambler...

....” — John Dryden, “Alexander’s Feast” This famous line refers to a convention of romance wherein feminine beauty becomes the reward for masculine heroism. Although Dryden’s poem enjoyed continuous popularity throughout the eighteenth century, this phrase...

... tones!” (p. 13). The countess’ gruff manner and her violent transports establish her as a masculinized woman who has developed an erotic obsession with the Banti and her singing. Sir Simon, Georgina’s father, misunderstanding the singer’s name, asks, “The bantling! why...

... I have studied, and with the letters of a contemporary, vicar s daughter, Jane Austen. Both must have kept accounts because they esteemed prudent economy, but likely quarantined record of their spending into a domestic account book that was not preserved by descendants. Exemplary piety was always...

... political status, much as buying a certain book or painting represented the owner’s taste. Women could not be, Wilson writes, “inde- pendent political subjects, only auxiliary ones.” Their role was restricted “to authoriz[ing] masculine prerogatives and authority.”3 This was...

..., Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 1996), 61. For a survey of recent critical attention to Smith’s poetical borrowings, see Paula Backscheider, Eighteenth-Century Women Natural History in Anna Seward’s Order of Poetics    1 2 3...

...), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818), Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife; Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manner, Religion and Morals (1810), and the two nov- els I discuss below, which eschew the dominant model of female readers as passive receptacles and assume an...

... from the type to the individual, Donald goes on to speculate that the duchess’s masculine dress—she is wearing a riding dress and carrying Thomas Rowlandson’s Vauxhall Gardens: The Lives of a Print 1 7 a whip in the version housed at the Yale Center for British Art—becomes an early...

...; Gabriella Hartvig traces imitations of Gulliver’s Travels in post-World War I Hungary; and Michael Düring studies the “creative reception” of Swift in Soviet Russia. In Swift’s Travels, both Sabor and Jenny Davidson attempt, I think not altogether suc- cessfully, to identify Austen’s “Swiftian...