Re-reading Jane Austen

This book combines a feminist perspective with a non-Western reading of Jane Austen. The author considers how being a woman shaped Austen s literary attitudes and social thinking, and brings to bear her own post-colonial consciousness in understanding the economics, geography and social conventions of Austen s world. Analysis of the novels focuses on the way Jane Austen s treatment of interrelated issues such as marriage and professions, space and enclosure, art and life, language and artifice, provide the dynamics of narrative in her work.