A. Tauchert

Gebundenes Buch

Romancing Jane Austen

Narrative, Realism and the Possibility of a Happy Ending

Beschreibung

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...

Autor

ASHLEY TAUCHERT is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Exeter University, UK. Her previous works include Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine and Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education.

Produktdetails

• Language, Discourse, Society
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-9747-0
• 2005
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781403997470
• ISBN-10: 1403997470
• Artikelnr.: 21131414