Claudia L. Johnson is the Murray Professor of English Literature at

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. Johnson received her

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from

; she specializes in Restoration and

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, with an especial focus on the novel. She is also interested in

feminist theory Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or Philosophy, philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's Gender role, social roles, experiences, intere ...

and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field n ...

. Johnson is renowned for her books on

Jane Austen Jane Austen ( ; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for #List of works, her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century ...

and

Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft ( , ; 27 April 175910 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional ...

Scholarship

Johnson's major books include ''Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel'' (Chicago, 1988) and ''Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s'' (Chicago, 1995). She also edited ''The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft'' (Cambridge, 2002) as well as editions of Jane Austen's ''

Mansfield Park ''Mansfield Park'' is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton (publisher), Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray (publishing house), John Murray, st ...

'' (Norton, 1998), ''

Sense and Sensibility ''Sense and Sensibility'' ( working title; ''Elinor and Marianne'') is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously: ''By A Lady'' appears on the title page where the author's name might h ...

'' (Norton, 2002), and ''

Northanger Abbey ''Northanger Abbey'' ( ) is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic fiction, Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen. Although the title page is dated 1818 and the novel was published posthumously in 1817 with ''Persuasio ...

'' (Oxford, 2003). Nina Auerbach has called ''Equivocal Beings'' the "definitive account of Wollstonecraft, nnRadcliffe, and annyBurney . . . It should become one of the classic feminist accounts, not just of the late eighteenth century, but of all women writers in their time" and Margaret Anne Doody writes that ''Jane Austen'' is "brilliant, witty and well-informed book . . . the best single book on Austen for a decade or more—and one of the best ever."''Jane Austen'' book cover
books.google.com. "She is now putting the finishing touches on a book about author-love called ''Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures'', which traces permutations of “Jane mania” from 1817 to the present, and also working on another called ''Raising the Novel'', which explores modern efforts to create a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of high culture."Claudia L. Johnson
www.princeton.edu. Retrieved on 8 July 2007.

Awards

She has been awarded

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

s and grants by the

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

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