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Looser, Devoney Kay was born on April 11, 1967 in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of LeRoy Joseph and Sharon LaFollette (Sarslow) Looser.
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(Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism) Author: Professor Devoney Looser published on (September, 1995)
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Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism
( In recent decades the vision of Austen as a subversive ...)
In recent decades the vision of Austen as a subversive or rebellious author has appeared most forcefully in the varied scholarship of feminist literary critics. Some feminists have fashioned an Austen more closely linked to what Juliet Mitchell has called 'The Longest Revolution' (the women's movement) than to the French Revolution; others have vehemently disagreed. Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism involves - among other things - a reassessment of these versions of Austen's relationship to feminisms. By foregrounding issues ofartistic merit, genre, and history, many literary critics have effectively ignored issues of gender in their studies of Austen; feminist scholarship provided an important corrective. On the other hand, some feminist criticism, although it approached Austen's texts in innovative ways, gave short shrift to issues ofhistory, literary genre, social context, or artistry. This volume aims implicitly and explicitly to recap second-wave feminist attention to Austen and to suggest new directions that criticism on Austen might take.
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(British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820) Author: Devoney Looser published on (March, 2005)
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British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
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Until recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. The first book to look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the long eighteenth century, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, asks why, rather than writing history that included their own sex, some women of this period chose to write the same kind of history as men―one that marginalized or excluded women altogether. But as Devoney Looser demonstrates, although British women's historically informed writings were not necessarily feminist or even female-focused, they were intimately involved in debates over and conversations about the genre of history. Looser investigates the careers of Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen and shows how each of their contributions to historical discourse differed greatly as a result of political, historical, religious, class, and generic affiliations. Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.
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British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
( Until recently, history writing has been understood as ...)
Until recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. The first book to look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the long eighteenth century, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, asks why, rather than writing history that included their own sex, some women of this period chose to write the same kind of history as men--one that marginalized or excluded women altogether. But as Devoney Looser demonstrates, although British women's historically informed writings were not necessarily feminist or even female-focused, they were intimately involved in debates over and conversations about the genre of history. Looser investigates the careers of Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen and shows how each of their contributions to historical discourse differed greatly as a result of political, historical, religious, class, and generic affiliations. Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.
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- Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue
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Devoney Kay Looser
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Devoney Kay Looser, American English literature educator. Fellow, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1994, 2009, National Humanities Center Institute, 2003, Huntington Library., 2004, 2008, King's College, London, 2004, Spencer Library., University Kansas, 2004, Newberry Library., 2005, American Philosophical Society, 2008; Big 12 fellow, 2006.
Education
Bachelor, Augsburg College, 1989; Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1993.
Career
Instructor English State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1989-1993. Assistant professor English Indiana State University, Terre Haute, 1993-1998, acting director women's studies, 1997-1998. Assistant professor women's studies University Wisconsin, Whitewater, 1998-2000.
Visiting assistant professor English Arizona State University, 2000-2001. Assistant professor English Louisiana State University, 2001—2002, University Missouri, Columbia, since 2002, associate professor English, since 2004.
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Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism
( In recent decades the vision of Austen as a subversive ...)
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British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
( Until recently, history writing has been understood as ...)
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British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
( Until recently, history writing has been understood as ...)
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Generations: Academic Feminists In Dialogue
(In universities and colleges across the country, feminist...)
- Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue
- (Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism) Author: Professor Devoney Looser published on (September, 1995)
- (British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820) Author: Devoney Looser published on (March, 2005)
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Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism
Membership
Fellow American Philosophical Society, 2008. Member Modern Language Association (executive committee late eighteenth century division since 2004, executive committee Midwest section 2004-2007, vice president Midwest section since 2007, president, Midwest section, since 2008, member PMLA advisory committee since 2010), American Society Eighteenth Century Studies, Jane Austen Society North America (board directors 2000-2002), National Women's Studies Association, North America Society Study of Romanticism, Society for Study of Early Modern Women.
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Married George Lewis Justice, 1996. Children: Carl Anchor Justice, Lowell Williamson Justice.
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American
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Fellow, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1994, 2009, National Humanities Center Institute, 2003, Huntington Library., 2004, 2008, King's College, London, 2004, Spencer Library., University Kansas, 2004, Newberry Library., 2005, American Philosophical Society, 2008. Big 12 fellow, 2006.Fellow, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1994, 2009, National Humanities Center Institute, 2003, Huntington Library., 2004, 2008, King's College, London, 2004, Spencer Library., University Kansas, 2004, Newberry Library., 2005, American Philosophical Society, 2008. Big 12 fellow, 2006.