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Article: Austen's Emma and the gendering of Enlightenment satire.(National Humanities Center: Emma Seminar)(Critical Essay)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
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- January 1, 2003
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AS GENIAL, PRIM, AND OUTRIGHT QUAINT as Jane Austen may remain in the public imagination, few authors have rivaled her ability to touch off turf wars in the hails of academia. Depending on which version of literary history one subscribes to, Austen is either the last great satirist of the Enlightenment, the archetypal Romantic-era woman, or the first great Victorian novelist. Somehow, even in the present hyper-historical moment of literary studies, Austen seems to have escaped the clutches of chronology, being granted what Clara Tuite has recently called a sort of "transhistoricity" (2).
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