Jane Austen's Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process (Gender and Genre)

Jane Austen's six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner's study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen's work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process.

• | Author: Enit Karafili Steiner
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1138661570
• | ISBN-13: 9781138661578