Romancing Jane Austen
Download or Read eBook Romancing Jane Austen PDF written by A. Tauchert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : A. Tauchert |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2005-12-16 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780230599697 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0230599699 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Romancing Jane Austen by : A. Tauchert
Book excerpt: 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...
