Romancing Jane Austen - Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)

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...

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Language, Discourse, Society
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	A Tauchert
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-54635-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	1-349-54635-6
Barcode:	9781349546350

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