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25%OFFHelena Kelly - Jane Austen, the Secret Radical - 9781785781889 - V9781785781889
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

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Description for Jane Austen, the Secret Radical Paperback. An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English Literature's most celebrated novelists. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian

Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years.

Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785781889
SKU
V9781785781889
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-12

About Helena Kelly
Helena Kelly holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she has taught classics and English Literature. Brought up in Kent, she now lives in Oxford with her husband and son. She is also the author of Jane Austen, the Secret Radical and The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens.

Reviews for Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
What this radical re-reading ... does so brilliantly is to exhort us all to chuck out the chintz, and the teacups, and all the traditional romantic notions about Austen's work that have been fed to us for so long ... However well you think you know the novels, you'll be raring to read them again once you've read this.
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