Romancing Jane Austen : Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending

1st ed. 2005

by A. Tauchert

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Language, Discourse, Society

ISBN-10 1349546356

ISBN-13 9781349546350

Edition 1st ed. 2005

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 16th, 2005

Print length 192 Pages

Product Classification: Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Fiction & related items

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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?

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...

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