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Teoria, nostalgia, alt-right: amerykańska Austen w XXI wieku

2019, 63, No. 2

Mikołaj Golubiewski

Warsaw University

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.5522

Publication date

25.10.2019

Publishing model

open access

License type

CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

arts and humanities

Discipline

philosophy, history, archeology, linguistics, literary studies, culture and religion studies, arts studies, polish studies

Language of publication

Polish

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Abstract

In July 2017, some American scholars accused alt-right groups of appropriating Jane Austen’s works for extreme-right propaganda. How could Austen’s texts – an author associated with the beginnings of feminism – be used by blatant misogynists? This clash of perceptions reveals a dispute between Austen’s broad reception as classically romantic romances and a whole range of narrow theoretical academic readings. In the analysis of this dispute, the paper outlines long-lasting threads of Austen’s interpretation in AngloAmerican culture, whose ideological reconstruction of the last few decades clashes with a nostalgia for imperial order.

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