Why Jane Austen?

Why Jane Austen?
ISBN-10
0231153910
ISBN-13
9780231153911
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2013-01-08
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Rachel Brownstein

Description

Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.

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