Rachel Brownstein
Professor, Brooklyn College. English
Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D., Yale University.
Campus Affiliation: Brooklyn College
Research Interests: The 18th- and 19th-century novel; Romanticism in England and France; women's writing and feminist criticism and theory; biography; essays, diaries and letters.
Theory Group Field Specialization: Feminist Theory and Women's Writings
Chronological Period Specialization: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature|The Romantic Movement|The Victorian Period
Coming Soon:
"Why Jane Austen?", Columbia University Press, June 2011.
Selected Publications:
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"Endless Imitation: Austen's and Byron's Juvenilia," in The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf, ed. Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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"Out of the Drawing Room, Onto the Lawn," in Jane Austen in Hollywood, ed. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, The University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
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"Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice," in The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, ed. Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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"Interrupted Reading," in Confessions of the Critics, ed. H. Aram Veeser, Routledge, 1995."The Importance of Aunts," in Fay Weldon's Wicked Fictions, ed. Regina Barreca, University Press of New England, 1994.
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"Chosen Women," in Out of the Garden: Women Writing on the Bible, ed. Christina Buchmann and Celina Spiegel, Ballantine Books, 1994