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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

Publication Year2025

SubjectLGBT, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorChris Washington

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

SeriesForerunners: Ideas First Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight4 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"This effervescent, provocative diversion shows, with wit and welcome brevity, how much further we need to go to understand Austen and do justice to her idiosyncratic genius."-- JASNA News " Delightful. "-- hilaryreadsbooks, " Nonbinary Jane Austen is a provocative reading of Austen's oeuvre that explores nonbinary identity's challenge to gender's structural confines. Over the course of ten short chapters, Washington provides an addition to queer and trans scholarship on Austen that redefines the author's legacy."-- Papers on Language and Literature "This effervescent, provocative diversion shows, with wit and welcome brevity, how much further we need to go to understand Austen and do justice to her idiosyncratic genius."-- JASNA News " Delightful. "-- hilaryreadsbooks

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.