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Dashwood, Rita J. (2018) ‘An office in which she had always depended’ : surrogate managers in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Persuasion. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 41 (3). pp. 373-389. doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12524 ISSN 1754-0194.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12524
Abstract
This article analyses the ways in which Jane Austen explores questions concerning female property management in two of her novels, Mansfield Park and Persuasion. These two novels are particularly relevant, as they share one common aspect: in both, two female characters attempt to appropriate the position of manager of a house they have no possibility of ever owning, thus replacing the legitimate manager. By analysing these two novels, I aim to show how Austen engages with the late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century discourse on female management and considers the possibilities and limits of this form of relationship with houses.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Mansfield Park -- Criticism and interpretation, Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Persuasion -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1754-0194 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 41 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 373-389 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1754-0208.12524 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Dashwood, R. J. (2018) ‘An office in which she had always depended’: Surrogate Managers in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Persuasion. Journal for Eighteenth‐Century Studies, 41: 373–389. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12524. which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12524 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 January 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 January 2020 |
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