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Nonbinary Jane Austen
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- Book 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.
- About The Author
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781517917586
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press, (07 January 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 106
- Weight
- 113 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 178 x 127 x 5 mm
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