The Divine Miss Jane: Jane Austen, Janeites, and the Discipline of Novel Studies

Abstract

in his war [against tenured radicals]. Even when his examples of academic idiocy are funny, they are also hair-raising. . . . A proponent of feminist studies argues that gynophobia is structured like a language. Sessions of the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association are devoted to Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl and to Desublimating the Male Sublime: Autoerotics, Anal Erotics and Corporeal Violence in Melville and William Burroughs. -Roger Rosenblatt, The Universities: A Bitter Attack (Review of Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals), New York Times Book Review, 22 April 1990