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Jane Austen’s Romantic Medievalism
- Courtly Love and Happy Endings
Engelsk Hardback
Jane Austen’s Romantic Medievalism
- Courtly Love and Happy Endings
Engelsk Hardback

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Jane Austen, that product of Georgian refinement and restraint, seems far removed from medieval romances abounding in valiant knights rescuing beautiful maidens from ferocious dragons. Yet, Jane Austen’s Romantic Medievalism traces her knowledge of the medieval tradition of courtly love and happy endings through medieval authors, through Shakespeare, and through the influential essayists, novelists, and poets of her day. Understanding Austen’s novels as romantically rooted helps answer vexing questions about her representation of gender and happiness. As Austen reflects on courtly love, she upends traditional gender roles, portraying women not as fine ladies but as rational creatures. Situating Austen within the romantic tradition helps readers understand her happy endings. Like the medieval romancers, Austen believed in a benevolent providence who offers gracious deliverance and perfect happiness; the comic narrative of Christianity supported and shaped the narrative of her own stories. Of course, Austen famously ironizes romance, criticizing emotional excess and downplaying conventionally romantic scenes. But her irony is both destructive and creative and actually aligns her with the medieval theological tradition, a tradition rooted in the paradoxes of Christianity. Austen’s ironic, providentially arranged romances educate her readers into wisdom and joy.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
238
ISBN-13:
9781611463507
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1611463505
Udg. Dato:
28 nov 2023
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
158mm
Højde:
237mm
Forlag:
Lehigh University Press
Oplagsdato:
28 nov 2023
Forfatter(e):
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