17320 Paper Dolls now first rightly interpreted

now first rightly interpreted

Skillful treatment of the characters and early 19th c prose

cameos of Garson

and never married

Well annotated with full index

17320 Paper Dolls now first rightly interpretedThe timing is 1983, and Austen criticism is evolving as the feminist eye is applied to literature. Smith argues that both the conservative view of Austen as a supporter of patriarchy that was long held by critics, as well as the more recent "double life" theory, where critics perceived that Austen upheld partriarchy in her works while siltently seething under the surface, are flawed. Instead, he argues that Austen's complex work is even more radical