Jane Austen And Representations Of Regency England

Author : Roger Sales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134838356

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Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England by Roger Sales Pdf

In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England reconstructs the breadth of Jane Austen's writing. It also examines: * her representations of dandyism and masculine identities * the events of the Regency crisis of 1810-12 * the way in which Austen engaged in topical debates such as healthcare in both Emma and Persuasion.

Author : Roy A. Adkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : England
ISBN : 1322799172

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Jane Austen's England by Roy A. Adkins Pdf

Author : Reginald James White
Publisher : New York, Putnam
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Boxing
ISBN : UOM:39015028801804

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Life in Regency England by Reginald James White Pdf

A study of British manners and customs from the years 1811-1837.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781604138160

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Jane Austen's Emma by Harold Bloom Pdf

- Critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism- Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Author : Enit Karafili Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317322535

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Jane Austen's Civilized Women by Enit Karafili Steiner Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Kramp
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814210468

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Disciplining Love by Michael Kramp Pdf

Loved by instructors for its visual and flexible way to build computer skills, the Illustrated Series is ideal for teaching Microsoft Office Excel 2010 to both computer rookies and hotshots. Each two-page spread focuses on a single skill, making information easy to follow and absorb. Large, full-color illustrations represent how the students' screen should look. Concise text introduces the basic principles of the lesson and integrates a case study for further application.

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781350309616

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Jane Austen-Mansfield Park by Sandie Byrne Pdf

The first novel of the author's maturity, Mansfield Park is complex, highly wrought, and experimental. It marks a transitional stage between the first two published novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Austen's greatest achievements, Emma and Persuasion. It has been suggested that Mansfield Park is the writer's most autobiographical novel and that, in seeing through the eyes of Fanny Price, deemed the most moralising and judgemental of her heroines, we are seeing through the eyes of Austen herself. Though Fanny Price may be too virtuous for modern readers to take to their hearts, in Mrs Norris Austen creates one of her best, because most plausible, monsters; while in the estate of Mansfield Park itself we find some of the most fully realised descriptions of domestic interiors and exteriors in Austen's fiction. This Guide traces the response to Mansfield Park from the opinions of Jane Austen's contemporaries, through 19th century reviews and 20th century critical analyses, including deconstructionist, feminist, postcolonial and poststructuralist, to diverse 21st century approaches to the novel. Sandie Byrne selects the most useful and insightful of these responses and puts them in context, providing the reader with an essential and approachable introduction to the range of critical debate on this important novel.

Author : David Selwyn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826446671

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Jane Austen and Leisure by David Selwyn Pdf

Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.

Author : David Selwyn
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847250414

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Jane Austen and Children by David Selwyn Pdf

Explores the surprisingly important part that children play in the novels of Jane Austen and the contribution they make to understanding her adult characters. >

Author : Sheryl Craig,Eckersley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137544551

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Jane Austen and the State of the Nation by Sheryl Craig,Eckersley Pdf

Jane Austen and the State of the Nation explores Jane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen's books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels.

Author : Mike Goode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192606914

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Romantic Capabilities by Mike Goode Pdf

Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume contends that how a literary text behaves when it encounters new media reveals medial capabilities of the text that can transform how we understand its significance for the original historical context for which it was created. Following an introductory theoretical chapter that explains the book's unconventional approach to the archive, Romantic Capabilities analyzes significant popular "media behaviors" exhibited by three major Romantic British literary corpuses: the viral circulation of William Blake's pictures and proverbs across contemporary media, the gravitation of Victorian panorama painters and 3D photographers to Walter Scott's historical fictions, and the ongoing popular practice of writing fanfiction set in the worlds of Jane Austen's novels and their imaginary country estates. The result is a book that reveals Blake to be an important early theorist of viral media and the law, Scott's novels to be studies in vision that helped give rise to modern immersive media, and Austenian realism to be a mode of ecological design whose project fanfiction grasps and extends. It offers insight into the politics of virality, the dependence of immersion on a sense of frame, and the extent to which eighteenth-century landscape gardening anticipated Deleuzian ideas of the "virtual" by granting existence to reality's as-yet-unrealized capabilities.

Author : Robert Thomas Lambdin,Laura Lambdin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313032387

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A Companion to Jane Austen Studies by Robert Thomas Lambdin,Laura Lambdin Pdf

Jane Austen significantly shaped the development of the English novel, and her works continue to be read widely today. Though she is best known for her novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, she also wrote poems, letters, prayers and various pieces of juvenalia. These writings have been attracting the attention of scholars; her major works have already generated a large body of scholarly and critical studies. This reference is a guide to her works and the response to them. Austen's works are fraught with ambiguity. Because she was adept at displaying numerous aspects of an issue, her writings invite multiple interpretations. In light of the ambiguity of her texts, each of her major works is approached from a reader-response perspective, in which an expert contributor illuminates the reader's relationship to her writing. And because so many readers have had such varied responses to her novels, the volume also includes chapters summarizing the critical response to each of her major works. In addition, the book includes separate chapters on her poems, letters, and prayers.

Author : John Mullan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781620400449

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What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan Pdf

Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness.? ?In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austens novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction. Readers will discover when Austen's characters had their meals and what shops they went to; how vicars got good livings; and how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen? illuminates the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and daring as a novelist. It uses telling passages from Austen's letters and details from her own life to explain episodes in her novels: readers will find out, for example, what novels she read, how much money she had to live on, and what she saw at the theater.? ? Written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Jane Austen? will allow readers to appreciate Jane Austen's work in greater depth than ever before.

Author : Christopher Brooke,Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0859915573

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Jane Austen by Christopher Brooke,Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke Pdf

Rank and state, church and clergy, marriage, Jane Austen's own convictions: a historian explores.

Author : Charles Jennings
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780330471

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A Brief Guide to Jane Austen by Charles Jennings Pdf

Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the finest prose stylists in literature; the first truly modern writer, the Godmother of chick lit. She is also the greatest enigma (next to Shakespeare) in English literature. Soldiers in the First World War sat in the trenches and read them for the civilising comforts they provided. Hard-nut literary critics such as F. R. Leavis lauded their austere complexity. World Book Day, 2007, found that Pride and Prejudice was the one book 'The nation can't live without'. In this witty, accessible guide, Charles Jennings goes in search of this enigma through her words as well as her times, including a short biography, an overview of the novels, as well as the world that she inhabited. Finally, the book contains Jane's very own words of advice for the modern life.