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The historical Austen /

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleJane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Galperin, William H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, ©2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • History, silence, and "The trial of Jane Leigh Perrot"
  • The picturesque, the real, and the consumption of Jane Austen
  • Why Jane Austen is not Frances Burney : probability, possibility, and romantic counterhegemony
  • Lady Susan and the failure of Austen's early published novels
  • Narrative incompetence in Northanger Abbey
  • Jane Austen's future shock
  • Nostalgia in Emma
  • The body in Persuasion and Sanditon.