The historical Austen /
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. [This book] sees Austen's development as operating in two registers. Although her...
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic,
2005.
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| Summary: | 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. [This book] 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 the book, the author] offers startling new interpretations of these texts, demonstrating the extraordinary awareness that Austen maintained with respect to not only her narrative practice - notably, free indirect discourse - but also the novel's function as a social and political instrument. -Dust jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003. Sound recording. |
| Physical Description: | Sound disc : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access: | Distribution is restricted to RFB&D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability. |