Jane Austen Palgrave Macmillan - Women Writers S.

Combining a feminist perspective with a non-western reading of Jane Austen, the text considers how being a woman shaped Austen's literary attitudes and social thinking. The author brings to bear her own post-colonial consciousness in understanding the economics, geography and social conventions of Austen's world. Analysis of the novels focuses on the way Jane Austen's treatment of inter-related issues such as marriage and professions, space and enclosure, art and life, language and artiface, provide the dynamics of narrative in her work.;This text recognizes Austen's work as an interface between two sets of opposing impulses. The author, Meenakshi Mukherjee has also published two other titles - "The Twice Born Fiction - Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in English" and "Realism and Reality - The Novel and Society in India". She has also edited "Another India".;Other titles in the series include "Women in Romanticism", "Sylvia Plath", "Charlotte Bronte", "Mrs Gaskell" and "Eudora Welty".