Romancing Jane Austen : Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Series: | Language, discourse, society.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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... |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XV, 192 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780230599697 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/9780230599697 |