17320-1 shippingcost printed in 1968

printed in 1968

Published at $109

A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers 1580-1720

Alfred Tennyson

Still wrapped in publisher's plastic seal

17320-1 shippingcost printed in 1968The 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