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..., 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 for Her Benevolence After Jane Austen died in 1817, her family commissioned a memorial slab...

... and sons in a critique of the legible under the aegis of the probable. Here the totalizing circuit of “tyranny” and “disobedience” turns out not only a partialization of Jane Austen: Afterlives 115 human practice and progress along an axis of masculine...

... and sons in a critique of the legible under the aegis of the probable. Here the totalizing circuit of “tyranny” and “disobedience” turns out not only a partialization of Jane Austen: Afterlives 115 human practice and progress along an axis of masculine...

... that Edgeworth, like Austen, recycled some of her earlier work, including Patronage , Edgeworth's children's stories, and Professional Education , which she coauthored anonymously, publishing it under her father's name, because she feared readers would not take advice on “masculine professions from a female...

...- 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 Southampton, which...

... 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 wellspring of sociability. In Persuasion, Captain...

... , ed. Anne Commire, 16 vols. (Waterford: Yorkin, 1999). 19. Laura Mooneyham-White, Jane Austen's Anglicanism (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 13. See also Hilton, Age of Atonement ; Michael Giffin, Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England (New York: Palgrave Macmillan...

... of Lord Nelson’s career, “rep- resented a new kind of masculinity and a new kind of Englishness” (91). She builds on insights in Brian Southam’s Jane Austen and the Navy (2000) to reject readings of Austen’s last novel as an “autumnal” autobiographical work, a point she reaffirms in her reading...

... examples. Gothic fiction, on the other hand, often presents an edifice in the title: The Castle of Otranto (1764), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793), The Children of the Abbey (1796), and of course, Jane Austen's gothic rewriting, Northanger Abbey (1817). 9...

... 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...

... discursive form for her social critique” (138). In contrast, Marilyn Butler, in “The Woman at the Window: Ann Radcliffe in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen,” Gender and Literary Voice , ed. Janet Todd (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1980), 128–48, argues that although Wollstonecraft...

... at 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...

... erosion of male British identity” that the colonial enterprise threatened (158). Ingrassia then adds a postscript that leaps ahead to the mention in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice of the flogging of a militiaman, reiterating once more how the language of captivity lies just barely under the surface...

... 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 acquaintance more appo- site: “There are two Traits in her Character which are pleasing; Namely, she...

... of feminine beauty and gallantry, see Claudia Johnson, Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago,1995). 35. As Landry notes, this critique of the “traditional” sources...

... fashionable performance? Their basic response in their central moral commentary was not to mention their own clothes. This absence marks a strong contrast with the manuscripts of other genteel and middling women I have studied, and with the letters of a contemporary, vicar s daughter, Jane Austen. Both must...

... in retirement in both wet weather and fine. In the city they walked in specified parks. Walking became a trope for their lives— nothing too strenuous, nothing ungraceful, but rather the practice of an art, as, walking about the drawing room of Netherfield, Austen’s...

.... Parke, Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri, 1991), 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...

... as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1984), pp. 3-47. 13. For biographical information on Conway, see Brian Fothergill, The Strawberry Hill Set: Horace Walpole and His Circle (London: Faber...