Why Jane Austen?
Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane. In this book, the author considers constructions of the English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) as…
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- Full title :Why Jane Austen? / Rachel M. Brownstein.
Summary
Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.
In this book, the author considers constructions of the English novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) as a heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author and the changing notions of these categories.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 285 p. : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0231153902, 9780231153904, 0231527241, 9780231527248
- oclc:ocn833296773
- LC Classification:PR4037
- Dewey Decimal:823.7
Table of Contents
Why we read Jane Austen -- Looking for Jane -- Neighbors -- Authors -- Why we reread Jane Austen.
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