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Rachel Brownstein

Ph.D., Yale University.
Professor, Brooklyn College. English

Email: rbrownstein@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 817-8488

 

Selected Publications:

  • Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels (Viking, 1982; Penguin, 1984).
  • Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise (Knopf, 1993), (Duke, 1995).
  • "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.
  • "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.
  • "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.
  • "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.
  • "Chosen Women," in Out of the Garden: Women Writing on the Bible, ed. Christina Buchmann and Celina Spiegel, Ballantine Books, 1994.