Postcolonial Jane Austen

<p>This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by:</p><p>* examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire<br>* revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular context<br>* exploring the ways in which the study of Austen's novels raises fresh issues for post-colonial criticism.</p><p>Bringing together work by highly-respected critics from four continents and a range of disciplines, this newly paperbacked volume allows sometimes surprising and always fascinating new insights into some of the most frequently studied - and best loved - novels in the English language.</p> <p><strong>Part 1: Introduction </strong>Austen in the World: Postcolonial Mappings <em> </em><strong>Part 2: Austen in the World </strong>Jane Austen Goes to the Seaside English Identity and the 'West Indian' Schoolgirl Learning to Ride at Mansfield Park<em> </em>Austen's Treacherous Ivory: Female Patriotism, Domestic Ideology, and Empire<em> </em>Domestic Retrenchment, Colonial Expansion, and the Traffic of Improvement The Property Plots of <em>Mansfield Park</em> <em>Clara Tuite</em> Of Windows and Country Walks Frames of Space and Movement in 1990s Austen Adaptations <em> </em><strong>Part 3: Austen Abroad </strong>Reluctant Janeites: Daughterly Value in Jane Austen and Sarat Chatterjee's<em> </em>Jane Austen Goes to India Emily Eden's home Thoughts from Abroad Farewell to Jane Austen Uses of realism in Vikram Seths <em>Suitable Boy</em> Father's Daughters: Critical Realism Examines Patriarchy in Jane Austen's <em>Pride and Prejudice</em> and Pak Wanso's <em>A Faltering Afternoon</em> [Hwichongkorinun Ohu]<em> </em>Clueless in the Neocolonial World Order<em> </em><strong>Part 4: Poem </strong>To a 'Jane Austen' class at Ibadan University </p>