Judith Lowder Newton (essay date February 1978)
SOURCE: Newton, Judith Lowder. “Pride and Prejudice: Power, Fantasy, and Subversion in Jane Austen.” Feminist Studies 4, no. 1 (February 1978): 27-42.
[In the following essay, Newton examines the power dynamic in Pride and Prejudice, arguing that although men dominated Austen's society in economic and social privilege, Elizabeth Bennet represents a fantasy of female autonomy.]
To read Jane Austen's letters—with their steady consciousness of bargains, pence, and shillings—is to...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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