A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression
Title | A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression PDF eBook |
Author | Jocelyn Harris |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780874139662 |
Origins for Persuasion -- The reviser at work : MS chapter 10 to chapters X-XI (1818) -- At the White Hart : MS chapter 11 to chapter XII (1818) -- The history of Buonaparte -- Domestic virtues and national importance -- A critique on Walter Scott -- Prejudice on the side of ancestry -- The worth of Lyme -- The white glare of Bath -- Conclusion: Meaning to have spring again.
Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen
Title | Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen PDF eBook |
Author | Jocelyn Harris |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2017-08-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611488435 |
In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticizethe royal heir as unfit to rule, and exposeSusan Burney’s cruel husband throughMr. Price. In Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the young Prince of Wales as the vulgar John Thorpe; in Persuasion, she attacks both the regent’s failure to retrench, and his dangerous desire to become another Sun King. For Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Austen may draw on the actress Dorothy Jordan, mistress of the pro-slavery Duke of Clarence, while her West Indian heiress in Sanditon may allude to Sara Baartman, who was exhibited in Paris and London as “The Hottentot Venus,” and adopted as a test case by the abolitionists. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this new book by Jocelyn Harris contributes significantly to the growing literature about Austen’s worldiness by presenting a highly particularized web of facts, people, texts, and issues vital to her historical moment.
Jane Austen's Art of Memory
Title | Jane Austen's Art of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Jocelyn Harris |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2003-08-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521542074 |
Offers a radical new thesis about Jane Austen's construction of her art and recreates substantial area of her mental and imaginative life.
PERSUASION
Title | PERSUASION PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Austen |
Publisher | Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2021-01-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Persuasion is a novel written by a famous British writer Jane Austen. It is a story about the life of Anne Elliot, a middle daughter of baronet Sir Walter, a spender and bluffer. Due to these features of his character, he found himself in a difficult financial position. He has to rent a family estate Kellynch Hall in order to pay his debts. Meanwhile, his most smart and considerate daughter Anne goes to Uppercross to look after a sick sister. In the days of her youth she was mutually in love with Frederick Wentworth, but because of a fear of a poor marriage, “reasons of conscience” and on the insistence of a “family friend” Lady Russel Anne stopped her relationship with him. But now after eight years, some incredible coincidence happens. The family that rents Kellynch Hall is related to Frederick Wentworth. Is the old-time love still alive in the hearts of Anne and Frederick?
Jane Austen's Erotic Advice
Title | Jane Austen's Erotic Advice PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Raff |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2014-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199760330 |
Raff traces Austen's increasingly libidinal narrative presence, while simultaneously offering analysis of her biography that connects prose and life.
Jane Austen's Civilized Women
Title | Jane Austen's Civilized Women PDF eBook |
Author | Enit Karafili Steiner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317322533 |
Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s study uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen’s work: Scottish Enlightenment theories of societal development, early-Romantic discourses on gender roles, modern sociological theories on the civilizing process.
Art and Artifact in Austen
Title | Art and Artifact in Austen PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Battigelli |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2020-03-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1644531763 |
Jane Austen distinguished herself with genius in literature, but she was immersed in all of the arts. Austen loved dancing, played the piano proficiently, meticulously transcribed piano scores, attended concerts and art exhibits, read broadly, wrote poems, sat for portraits by her sister Cassandra, and performed in theatricals. For her, art functioned as a social bond, solidifying her engagement with community and offering order. And yet Austen’s hold on readers’ imaginations owes a debt to the omnipresent threat of disorder that often stems—ironically—from her characters’ socially disruptive artistic sensibilities and skill. Drawing from a wealth of recent historicist and materialist Austen scholarship, this timely work explores Austen’s ironic use of art and artifact to probe selfhood, alienation, isolation, and community in ways that defy simple labels and acknowledge the complexity of Austen’s thought.