Rachel M. Brownstein Explained

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Rachel M. Brownstein (born 1937) is an American feminist literary critic, author, and academic.[1]

Early life

Rachel M. Brownstein was born in Manhattan, was graduated from Hunter College High School and Barnard College, and received her PhD in English from Yale University.[2]

Academic career

Brownstein is an emeritus professor of English at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.[3] She is known for her contributions to the field of English literature and her work on the novel, particularly the 18th- and 19th-century British novel. Her research and writing have focused on various aspects of literature, including narrative theory, women writers, and the intersections of literature and culture. She is the author of four books, Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels;[4] [5] [6] Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comédie-Française;[7] Why Jane Austen?;[8] [9] and American Born: an Immigrant's Story, a Daughter's Memoir.[10] [2] She was a MacDowell Foundation fellow (1980)[11] and spent a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy (1996). She was a fellow at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University (2016-2017). In 1993, she received the George Freedley Award from the Theatre Library Association for Tragic Muse and it was listed as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review.[12] She is considered a foundational feminist literary critic and a leading scholar of Jane Austen's works.[13] [14] [15]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rachel M. Brownstein . 2023-10-27 . . en.
  2. Web site: Rachel M. Brownstein . . 23 October 2023.
  3. Web site: Miller . Cheryl . The Divine Miss Jane: A review of Why Jane Austen?, by Rachel M. Brownstein . 2023-10-27 . Claremont Review of Books . en-US.
  4. Web site: Becoming a heroine : reading about women in novels / Rachel M. Brownstein – Catalogue National Library of Australia . 2023-10-27 . catalogue.nla.gov.au . en.
  5. Margolis . Anne T. . April 1984 . Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels . Rachel M. Brownstein Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth . Nina Auerbach . Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society . 9 . 3 . 493–496 . 10.1086/494074.
  6. Alden . Patricia . 1985 . Becoming a Heroine: Reading about Women in Novels, and: The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly, and Jane Austen, and: Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern (review) . Minnesota Review . 24 . 1 . 152–155 . 2157-4189.
  7. Ferris . Lesley . Henneke . October 1994 . Review: [Untitled] . Theatre Journal . 46 . 3 . 432 . 10.2307/3208633.
  8. News: Seymour . Miranda . 2011-06-10 . Lessons From Jane Austen . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-10-27 . 0362-4331.
  9. Book: Brownstein, Rachel . Why Jane Austen? . 2011 . Columbia University Press . 978-0-231-52724-8.
  10. Web site: Rachel M. Brownstein . 2023-10-27 . University of Chicago Press . en.
  11. Web site: Rachel Brownstein – Artist . 2023-10-25 . MacDowell . en.
  12. News: Freedley Awards 1969–Present . Theater Library Association . 24 October 2023 .
  13. News: Lessons From Jane Austen . Miranda . Seymour . . 24 October 2023.
  14. News: The Woman Who Was France . . 24 October 2023.
  15. Web site: Read . Bridget . 19 October 2017 . Barack Obama's (Slightly Cringeworthy) College Love Letters Are Exactly What You Need Today . 2023-10-27 . Vogue . en-US.

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