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Why Jane Austen?
Engelsk Paperback
Why Jane Austen?
Engelsk Paperback

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From the first publication of Pride and Prejudice to recent film versions of her life and work, Jane Austen has continued to provoke controversy and inspire fantasies of peculiar intimacy. Whether celebrated for her realism, proto-feminism, or patrician gentility, imagined as a subversive or a political conservative, Austen generates passions shaped by the ideologies and trends of her readers' time--and by her own memorable stories, characters, and elusive narrative cool. In this book, Rachel M. Brownstein considers constructions of Jane Austen as a heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author and the changing notions of these categories. She finds echoes of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, the commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims paradoxically to preserve and liberate, to correct and collaborate with old Jane. Brownstein's brilliant discussion of the distinctiveness and distinction of Austen's genius clarifies the reasons why we read the novelist-or why we should read her-and reorients the prevailing view of her work. Reclaiming the rich comedy of Austen while constructing a new narrative of authorship, Brownstein unpacks the author's fascinating entanglement with readers and other admirers.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780231153911
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0231153910
Udg. Dato:
15 jan 2013
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
147mm
Højde:
221mm
Forlag:
Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 jan 2013
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge