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Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending
Ashley Tauchert
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Description for Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending
Hardback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
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...
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...
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Series
Language, Discourse, Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403997470
SKU
V9781403997470
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Ref
99-15
About Ashley Tauchert
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.
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