The Historical Austen / / William H. Galperin.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 4 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. Historicizing Austen
- 1. History, Silence, and "The Trial of Jane Leigh Perrot"
- 2. The Picturesque, the Real, and the Consumption of Jane Austen
- 3. Why Jane Austen Is Not Frances Burney: Probability, Possibility, and Romantic Counterhegemony
- PART II. Reading the Historical Austen
- 4. Lady Susan and the Failure of Austen's Early Published Novels
- 5. Narrative Incompetence in Northanger Abbey
- 6. Jane Austen's Future Shock
- 7. Nostalgia in Emma
- 8. The Body in Persuasion and Sanditon
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments