ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |25 pages
Introduction
part |112 pages
Austen at home
chapter |27 pages
Jane Austen goes to the seaside
Sanditon, English identity and the ‘West Indian' schoolgirl
chapter |23 pages
Of windows and country walks
Frames of space and movement in 1990s Austen adaptations
part |95 pages
Austen abroad
chapter |22 pages
Reluctant Janeites
Daughterly value in Jane Austen and Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's Swami
chapter |13 pages
Father's daughters
Critical realism examines patriarchy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Pak Wansǒ's A Faltering Afternoon [Hwichǒngkǒrinǔn Ohu]
part |4 pages
Poem
