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Jane Austen and Literary Theory by Shawn Normandin (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
ISBN-100367696452
ISBN-139780367696450
eBay Product ID (ePID)15057247945
Product Key Features
Book TitleJane Austen and Literary Theory
Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year2022
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorShawn Normandin
Book SeriesRoutledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal823.7
SynopsisJane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that by reading her critics. Perhaps no canonical author in English literature has proven, until now, more resistant to theory. Tracing the political motives for this resistance, Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds to counteract it. The book's detailed interpretations guide readers through some of the important intellectual achievements of Austen's career--from the stunning teenage parodies Evelyn and The History of England to her most accomplished novels, Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , and Emma . While criticism has largely been content to describe the various ways Austen was a product of her time, Jane Austen and Literary Theory reveals how she anticipated the ideas of formidable literary thinkers of the twentieth century, especially Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. Gift and exchange, speech and writing, symbol and allegory, stable irony and Romantic irony--these are just a few of the binary oppositions her dazzling texts deconstruct. Although her novels are major achievements of nineteenth-century realism, critics have hitherto underestimated their rhetorical cunning and their fascination with the materiality of language. Doing justice to Austen's language requires critical methods as ruthless as her irony, and Jane Austen and Literary Theory supplies these methods. This book will enable both her devotees and her detractors to appreciate her genius in unusual ways., Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds reveals how Austen anticipated the ideas of formidable literary thinkers of the twentieth-century, and will enable both her devotees and her detractors to appreciate her genius in unusual ways., Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that by reading her critics. Perhaps no canonical author in English literature has proven, until now, more resistant to theory. Tracing the political motives for this resistance, Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds to counteract it. The book's detailed interpretations guide readers through some of the important intellectual achievements of Austen's career-from the stunning teenage parodies "Evelyn" and "The History of England" to her most accomplished novels, Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , and Emma . While criticism has largely been content to describe the various ways Austen was a product of her time, Jane Austen and Literary Theory reveals how she anticipated the ideas of formidable literary thinkers of the twentieth century, especially Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. Gift and exchange, speech and writing, symbol and allegory, stable irony and Romantic irony-these are just a few of the binary oppositions her dazzling texts deconstruct. Although her novels are major achievements of nineteenth-century realism, critics have hitherto underestimated their rhetorical cunning and their fascination with the materiality of language. Doing justice to Austen's language requires critical methods as ruthless as her irony, and Jane Austen and Literary Theory supplies these methods. This book will enable both her devotees and her detractors to appreciate her genius in unusual ways.
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