02392namaa2200409uu 4500 doab70714 oapen 20260305123948.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 210611s2021 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9781003181309 9781003181309 9781032019826 9781032019918 10.4324/9781003181309 doi oapen oapen eng dc DS bicssc Kramp, Michael edt Jane Austen and Critical Theory Taylor & Francis 2021 1 online resource (278 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star Jane Austen and Critical Theory is a collection of new essays that addresses the absence of Critical Theory in Austen studies-an absence that has limited the reach of Austen criticism. The collection brings together innovative scholars who ask new and challenging questions about the efficacy of Austen's work. This volume confronts mythical understandings of Austen as "Dear Aunt Jane," the early twentieth-century legacy of Austen as a cultural salve, and the persistent habit of reading her works for advice or instructions. The authors pursue a diversity of methods, encourage us to build new kinds of relationships to Austen and her writings, and demonstrate how these relationships might generate new ideas and possibilities-ideas and possibilities that promise to expand the ways in which we deploy Austen. The book specifically reminds us of the vital importance of Austen and her fiction for central concerns of the humanities, including the place of the individual within civil society, the potential for new identities and communities, the urgency to address racial and sexual oppression, and the need to imagine more just futures. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Literature: history and criticism bicssc Literary Criticism Kramp, Michael oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70714 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92825 92825