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Jane Austen's Names (Hardcover)
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Jane Austen's Names (Hardcover)
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In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the
names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle
meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home
county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that
this heroine is not as stupid as she seems: according to legend,
cunning Wiltshire residents caught hiding contraband in a pond
capitalized on a reputation for ignorance by claiming they were
digging up a "big cheese" - the moon's reflection on the water's
surface. It worked. In Jane Austen's Names, Margaret Doody offers a
fascinating and comprehensive study of all the names of people and
places - real and imaginary - in Austen's fiction. Austen's
creative choice of names reveals not only her virtuosic talent for
riddles and puns. Her names also pick up deep stories from English
history, especially the various civil wars, and the blood-tinged
differences that played out in the reign of Henry VIII, a period to
which she often returns. Considering the major novels alongside
unfinished works and juvenilia, Doody shows how Austen's names
signal class tensions as well as regional, ethnic, and religious
differences. We gain a new understanding of Austen's technique of
creative anachronism, which plays with and against her skillfully
deployed realism - in her books, the conflicts of the past swirl
into the tensions of the present, transporting readers beyond the
Regency. Full of insight and surprises for even the most devoted
Janeite, Jane Austen's Names will revolutionize how we read
Austen's fiction.
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