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Forerunners: Ideas First Ser.: Nonbinary Jane Austen by Chris Washington (2025, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press

ISBN-101517917581

ISBN-139781517917586

eBay Product ID (ePID)26067516743

Product Key Features

Number of Pages106 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNonbinary Jane Austen

SubjectLGBT, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2025

TypeTextbook

AuthorChris Washington

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

SeriesForerunners: Ideas First Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight4 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal823.7

SynopsisA 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.