Nonbinary Jane Austen - Couverture souple

Washington, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1517917581 ISBN 13 : 9781517917586

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2025

Synopsis

A bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist

Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently than we have classically understood her: rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, the author theorizes how Austen envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that we can supposedly see solidifying in the eighteenth century. Instead, Washington argues, Austen leverages the generic restraints of the novel to write a disguised autofiction in which Austen imagines herself as transgender and works to abolish gender exclusivity altogether. In doing so, she establishes a politics that ushers in a future beyond the cisheteronormative binary, one built on plurality and possibility.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chris Washington is associate professor of English at Francis Marion University. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley's The Last Man.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1517917581
• ISBN 13: 9781517917586
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 106
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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