{"product_id":"nonbinary-jane-austen-9781517917586","title":"Nonbinary Jane Austen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chris Washington is associate professor of English at Francis Marion University. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eThe Last Man\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50927417458962,"sku":"9781517917586","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_41b686f4-aea5-4fe9-86a3-fbb677bd3265.jpg?v=1738984651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nonbinary-jane-austen-9781517917586","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}