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The historical Austen
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ISBN: 0812202015 0812219244 1322510695 Year: 2005 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane 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, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive. Reading the history of her novels' reception through other histories-literary, aesthetic, and social-The Historical Austen is a major reassessment of Jane Austen's achievement as well as a corrective to the historical Austen that abides in literary scholarship. In contrast to interpretations that stress the conservative aspects of the realistic tradition that Austen helped to codify, Galperin takes his lead from Austen's contemporaries, who were struck by her detailed attention to the dynamism of everyday life. Noting how the very act of reading demarcates an horizon of possibility at variance with the imperatives of plot and narrative authority, The Historical Austen sees Austen's development as operating in two registers. Although her writings appear to serve the interests of probability in representing "things as they are," they remain, as her contemporaries dubbed them, histories of the present, where reality and the prospect of change are continually intertwined. In a series of readings of the six completed novels, in addition to the epistolary Lady Susan and the uncompleted Sanditon, Galperin offers startling new interpretations of these texts, demonstrating the extraordinary awareness that Austen maintained not only with respect to her narrative practice-notably, free indirect discourse-but also with attention to the novel's function as a social and political instrument.

Jane Austen
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ISBN: 1134380356 1280168285 0203504364 9780203504369 9780415314343 0415314348 9780415314350 0415314356 0415314348 0415314356 9781134380350 9781280168284 9781134380305 9781134380343 1134380348 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Robert P. Irvine's guide to Jane Austen and her work is essential reading for students of English Literature. It is suitable both for students at introductory level, as extended reading, or for those beginning a detailed study of Austen.

Virginia Woolf's nose : essays on biography.
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ISBN: 0691120323 9780691120324 Year: 2005 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton university press

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Pepys, Samuel --- Austen, Jane --- Authors [English ] --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Biography as a literary form --- Thematology --- Woolf, Virginia --- Great Britain --- Authors, English --- 820 "19" WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- 82-94 --- 820 "19" WOOLF, VIRGINIA Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- English authors --- Biography&delete& --- Geschiedenis als literair genre. Kronieken. Memoires. Biografieën. Dagboeken --- Technique --- Austen, Jane, --- Pepys, Samuel, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- Shelley, P. B. --- Sheli, Persi Bish, --- Hsüeh-lai, --- Hermit of Marlow, --- Marlow, --- Victor, --- Shelli, Persi-Bishi, --- Šéli, Pérsi Ba, --- Shilī, --- Selley, Persy Byss, --- Shelli, P., --- Шелли, Перси Биши, --- שלי, פרסי ביש --- שלי, פרסי ביש, --- שעלי, פוירסי --- شلي --- Śeli, Pārsi Bīśa, --- S. P. --- P., S. --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Authors, English - Biography - History and criticism --- Essays --- Writers --- Book

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