The Historical Austen

The Historical Austen
Author :
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 296
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780812202014
ISBN-13 : 0812202015
Rating : 4/5 (015 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Historical Austen by : William H. Galperin

Download or read book The Historical Austen written by William H. Galperin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive. Reading the history of her novels' reception through other histories—literary, aesthetic, and social—The Historical Austen is a major reassessment of Jane Austen's achievement as well as a corrective to the historical Austen that abides in literary scholarship. In contrast to interpretations that stress the conservative aspects of the realistic tradition that Austen helped to codify, Galperin takes his lead from Austen's contemporaries, who were struck by her detailed attention to the dynamism of everyday life. Noting how the very act of reading demarcates an horizon of possibility at variance with the imperatives of plot and narrative authority, The Historical Austen sees Austen's development as operating in two registers. Although her writings appear to serve the interests of probability in representing "things as they are," they remain, as her contemporaries dubbed them, histories of the present, where reality and the prospect of change are continually intertwined. In a series of readings of the six completed novels, in addition to the epistolary Lady Susan and the uncompleted Sanditon, Galperin offers startling new interpretations of these texts, demonstrating the extraordinary awareness that Austen maintained not only with respect to her narrative practice—notably, free indirect discourse—but also with attention to the novel's function as a social and political instrument.


The Historical Austen Related Books

The Historical Austen
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: William H. Galperin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-17 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

GET EBOOK

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a femini
The Jane Austen Society
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Natalie Jenner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-26 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

GET EBOOK

* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato P
Jane Austen in Context
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Janet M. Todd
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and t
The Cambridge Companion to ‘Emma'
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Peter Sabor
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

This essay collection by leading scholars provides a comprehensive guide to Jane Austen's Emma, one of the greatest English novels.
The Lost Books of Jane Austen
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Janine Barchas
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-08 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

GET EBOOK

Hardcore bibliography meets Antiques Roadshow in an illustrated exploration of the role that cheap reprints played in Jane Austen's literary celebrity—and in