Beschrijving
Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds reveals how Austen anticipated the ideas of formidable literary thinkers of the twentieth-century, and will enable both her devotees and her detractors to appreciate her genius in unusual ways.
Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that by reading her critics. Perhaps no canonical author in English literature has proven, until now, more resistant to theory. Tracing the political motives for this resistance, Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds to counteract it. The book’s detailed interpretations guide readers through some of the important intellectual achievements of Austen’s career—from the stunning teenage parodies \
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