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Romancing Jane Austen - (Language, Discourse, Society) by A Tauchert (Hardcover)
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- 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?
- About the Author: ASHLEY TAUCHERT is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Exeter University, UK.
- 192 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Women Authors
- Series Name: Language, Discourse, Society
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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...About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.82 Inches (H) x 5.88 Inches (W) x .65 Inches (D)
Weight: .82 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Series Title: Language, Discourse, Society
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Format: Hardcover
Author: A Tauchert
Language: English
Street Date: December 16, 2005
TCIN: 92519983
UPC: 9781403997470
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-9358
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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