Claudia L. Johnson is the Murray Professor of English Literature atPrinceton University. Johnson received herPhD fromPrinceton University; she specializes inRestoration and18th centuryBritish literature, with an especial focus on the novel. She is also interested infeminist theory andgender studies. Johnson is renowned for her books onJane Austen andMary Wollstonecraft.
Johnson's major books includeJane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel (Chicago, 1988) andEquivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s (Chicago, 1995). She also editedThe Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge, 2002) as well as editions of Jane Austen'sMansfield Park (Norton, 1998),Sense and Sensibility (Norton, 2002), andNorthanger Abbey (Oxford, 2003).
Nina Auerbach has calledEquivocal Beings the "definitive account of Wollstonecraft,[Ann] Radcliffe, and[Fanny] Burney . . . It should become one of the classic feminist accounts, not just of the late eighteenth century, but of all women writers in their time" andMargaret Anne Doody writes thatJane Austen is a "brilliant, witty and well-informed book . . . the best single book on Austen for a decade or more—and one of the best ever."[1]
"She is now putting the finishing touches on a book about author-love calledJane Austen’s Cults and Cultures, which traces permutations of “Jane mania” from 1817 to the present, and is also working on another calledRaising the Novel, which "explores modern efforts to create a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of high culture."[2]
She has been awardedGuggenheim Fellowships and grants by theNational Endowment for the Humanities.[2]
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