Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism And the Possibility of a Happy Ending - Rilegato

Tauchert, Ashley

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ISBN 10: 1403997470 ISBN 13: 9781403997470

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Riassunto

We celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the 'perfect happiness' that can only be realized in the romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history. A happy ending for the feminine subject? But that would be against all the empirical odds...

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L'autore:

ASHLEY TAUCHERT is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Exeter University, UK. Her previous works include Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine and Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education.

Contenuti:

Introduction: The Persistence of Jane Austen's Romance
Hastening Together to Perfect Felicity
Her Opinions are all Romantic
Lydia's Tremendous Gape
She Does Not Like To Act
The Operation of the Same System in Another Way
Loving Longest, When Existence or When Hope is Gone
Conclusion: The Possibility of a Happy Ending
Notes
Bibliography

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1403997470
• ISBN 13: 9781403997470
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192