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Romancing Jane Austen

Romancing Jane Austen

Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending

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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? 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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décembre 2005, 192 pages, Language, Discourse, Society, Anglais
Springer Nature EN
978-1-4039-9747-0

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