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Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics

$22.95

Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics

SKU: 9780198861904 Category: Product ID: 61616

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Title: Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics
Author: KEYMER TOM
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 06/08/2020
Imprint: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $22.95
Publishing status: Active

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in Pride and Prejudice, it deftly introduces the novel’s core themes of marriage, money, and social convention, themes that continue to resonate with readers over 200 years later.Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels
in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of unpublished works. Her books pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and, despite some accusations of a blinkered
domestic and romantic focus, they represent the world of their characters with unsparing clarity. Here, Tom Keymer explores the major themes throughout Austen’s novels, setting them in the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which they emerge, and showing how they engage with social tensions in an era dominated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The Jane Austen who emerges is a writer shaped by the literary experiments and socio-political debates of her time,
increasingly drawn to a fundamentally conservative vision of social harmony, yet forever complicating this vision through her disruptive ironies and satirical energy.

ISBN: 9780198861904
Weight: 290g
Dimension: 176mm X 130mm
Pages: 192

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Weight 290 g
Dimensions 176 × 130 mm