Claudia L. Johnson

{{Short description|Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton University}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Claudia L. Johnson''' is the Murray Professor of English Literature at [[Princeton University]]. Johnson received her [[PhD]] from [[Princeton University]]; she specializes in [[English Restoration|Restoration]] and [[18th century in literature|18th century]] [[British literature]], with an especial focus on the novel. She is also interested in [[feminist theory]] and [[gender studies]]. Johnson is renowned for her books on [[Jane Austen]] and [[Mary Wollstonecraft]].

==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]]'' (Norton, 1998), ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' (Norton, 2002), and ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'' (Oxford, 2003).

[[Nina Auerbach]] has called ''Equivocal Beings'' the "definitive account of Wollstonecraft, [[Ann Radcliffe|[Ann] Radcliffe]], and [[Fanny Burney|[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" and [[Margaret Anne Doody]] writes that ''Jane 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."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=V8aOEz9mJogC&pg=PR9 ''Jane Austen'' book cover]. books.google.com.</ref>

"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 is 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."<ref name="Claudia L. Johnson">[http://english.princeton.edu/index.php?option=com_faculty&Itemid=99999999&func=fullview&facultyid=18 Claudia L. Johnson]. www.princeton.edu. Retrieved on 8 July 2007.</ref>

==Awards== She has been awarded [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]s and grants by the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]].<ref name="Claudia L. Johnson"/>

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