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"An illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and how she intended her books to be read. In Jane Austen, the Secret Radical, Helena Kelly, dazzling Jane Austen authority, looks at the writer and her work in the context of Austen's own time to reveal this popular, beloved artist as daring, even subversive in reaction to her roiling world and to show, novel by novel, how Austen imbued her books with radical, sometimes revolutionary ideas - on slavery, poverty, feminism and marriage as trapping women, on the Church, and evolution. We see that Austen was writing in a time when revolution was in the air (she was born the year before the American Revolution; the French Revolution began when she was thirteen). England had become a totalitarian state; Britain was at war with France. Habeas corpus had been suspended; treason, redefined, was no longer limited to actively conspiring to overthrow and to kill. It now included thinking, writing, printing, and reading (Tom Paine was convicted of seditious libel in 1792 for ideas considered dangerous to the state), the intention being to pressure writers and publishers to police themselves; those who criticized the government or who turned away from the Church of England were seen as betraying their country in its hour of need."--Front jacket flap of hardcover edition. "In this fascinating revelatory work, Helena Kelly looks past the grand houses, drawing-room dramas, and witty dialogue that have long been seen as hallmarks of Jane Austen's work to bring to light the serious, ambitious, subversive concerns of this beloved writer. Kelly illuminates the radical views--on such subjects as slavery, poverty, feminism, marriage, and the church-that Austen deftly and carefully explored in her six novels, at a time when open criticism was considered treason. Kelly shows us that Austen was fully aware of what was going on in the world durinn the turbulent times she lived in, and sure of what she thought of it. Above all, Austen understood that the novel--until then dismissed as mindless and frivolous--could be a meaningful art form, one that in her hands reached unprecendented heights of greatness."--book cover.

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Femmes de conscience, Aspects du féminisme américain (1848-1875) éclaire les débats qui animent la pensée américaine au XIXe siècle et préparent les grandes actions du XXe. Une équipe de spécialistes s'est réunie autour de Susan Goodman et Daniel Royot afin de mettre en perspective tout un faisceau d'idées. L'unité thématique s'est réalisée sur la condition des femmes et son évolution. Sont ainsi examinées les lignes de force des divers mouvements. L'approche diachronique permet d'évaluer les phases successives des luttes. L'ouvrage traite en outre de la nature du discours féministe et de ses variantes, s'attachant aux voix représentatives en termes de politique, de philosophie et de création littéraire. La question religieuse, le problème du mariage, la cause des femmes noires, les fonctions socio-économiques, le droit de vote font l'objet d'analyses. Polémiques, débats, ruptures, échecs et réussites constituent la trame de ce panorama dont on peut dire qu'il participe d'une problématique inédite, de nature à donner un nouvel élan aux études féministes anglophones.

American literature --- Feminism and literature --- Literature and society --- Women and literature --- Feminism --- Social problems in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- 19e s. --- études féministes --- féminisme américain