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Emma (Paperback)
Jane Austen; Edited by Stephanie Insley Hershinow
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R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
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Famously described by the author as "a heroine whom no one but
myself will much like," Emma Woodhouse is wealthy and charming, and
she delights in interfering with the romantic relationships within
her community-though she herself has no desire to marry. As her
meddling begins to bear consequences, however, Emma must come to
terms with her responsibility and decide on her place in the world.
With inimitable wit and incisive social commentary, Austen evokes a
complex prism of relational connection and a richness of ordinary
life that unfolds from the small world of her most extraordinary
heroine.
The early novel was not the coming-of-age story we know
today-eighteenth-century adolescent protagonists remained in a
constant state of arrested development, never truly maturing.
Between the emergence of the realist novel in the early eighteenth
century and the novel's subsequent alignment with self-improvement
a century later lies a significant moment when novelistic
characters were unlikely to mature in any meaningful way. That
adolescent protagonists poised on the cusp of adulthood resisted a
headlong tumble into maturity through the workings of plot reveals
a curious literary and philosophical counter-tradition in the
history of the novel. Stephanie Insley Hershinow's Born Yesterday
shows how the archetype of the early realist novice reveals
literary character tout court. Through new readings of canonical
novels by Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ann
Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, Hershinow severs the
too-easy tie between novelistic form and character formation, a
conflation, she argues, of Bild with Bildung. A pop-culture-infused
epilogue illustrates the influence of the eighteenth-century
novice, as embodied by Austen's Emma, in the 1995 film Clueless, as
well as in dystopian YA works like The Hunger Games. Drawing on
bold close readings, Born Yesterday alters the landscape of
literary historical eighteenth-century studies and challenges some
of novel theory's most well-worn assumptions.
The early novel was not the coming-of-age story we know
today-eighteenth-century adolescent protagonists remained in a
constant state of arrested development, never truly maturing.
Between the emergence of the realist novel in the early eighteenth
century and the novel's subsequent alignment with self-improvement
a century later lies a significant moment when novelistic
characters were unlikely to mature in any meaningful way. That
adolescent protagonists poised on the cusp of adulthood resisted a
headlong tumble into maturity through the workings of plot reveals
a curious literary and philosophical counter-tradition in the
history of the novel. Stephanie Insley Hershinow's Born Yesterday
shows how the archetype of the early realist novice reveals
literary character tout court. Through new readings of canonical
novels by Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ann
Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, Hershinow severs the
too-easy tie between novelistic form and character formation, a
conflation, she argues, of Bild with Bildung. A pop-culture-infused
epilogue illustrates the influence of the eighteenth-century
novice, as embodied by Austen's Emma, in the 1995 film Clueless, as
well as in dystopian YA works like The Hunger Games. Drawing on
bold close readings, Born Yesterday alters the landscape of
literary historical eighteenth-century studies and challenges some
of novel theory's most well-worn assumptions.
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