Author : Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421448203
"This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen gives her readers the happy ending they crave, but leaves its price tag attached"--
Author : Bryan Kozlowski
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1684422132
What can Jane Austen teach us about health? Prepare to have your bonnet blown... From the food secrets of Pride and Prejudice to the fitness strategies of Sense and Sensibility, there’s a modern health code hidden in the world’s most popular romances. Join Bryan Kozlowski as he unlocks this “health and happiness” manifesto straight from Jane Austen’s pen, revealing why her prescriptions for achieving total body “bloom” still matter in the 21st century. Whether that’s learning how to eat like Lizzie Bennet, exercise like Emma Woodhouse, or think like Elinor Dashwood, explore how Austen’s timeless body beliefs are more relevant, refreshing, and scientifically sensible now than ever before. After all, it's still a truth universally acknowledged – Jane Austen’s heroines don’t get fat.
Author : Janine Barchas
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421431599
Thoroughly innovative and occasionally irreverent, this book will appeal in equal measure to book historians, Austen fans, and scholars of literary celebrity.
Author : Shawna Mullen
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780806525075
A collection of quotes and excerpts from such works of literature as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion provides insight into Austen's humor, intelligence, and independent spirit regarding such topics as courtship, friendship, and men. Original.
Author : Emily Auerbach
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299201845
A study of Jane Austen's life and writings, this work surveys two centuries of editing, censorship, and fiction that created a pious, wistful, romantically pining, and frustrated Austen. It serves up an antidote to that icon - a dynamic, brave, and buoyant writer - by examining subtle self-portraits in the author's works.
Author : Helena Kelly
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1785781170
'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.
Author : Deborah Yaffe
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547757735
With warmth and humor, lifelong Janeite Deborah Yaffe opens the door on the quirky, thriving subculture of Jane Austen fandom.
Author : Marilyn Butler
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Professor Butler examines the very different schools of writing about Austen, and finds in them some unexpected continuities, such as a willingness to recruit her to modern aims, but a reluctance to engage with her own history.
Author : Natalie Jenner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250248728
* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.
Author : Deborah Kaplan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 1994-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801849701
Originally published in 1992. In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist? Was she an isolated genius who rose to fame through sheer talent? Did she draw strength from the support of her family or from women writers who went before her? In Jane Austen among Women, Deborah Kaplan argues that these explanations are either misleading or insufficient. Austen, Kaplan contends, participated actively in a women's culture that promoted female authority and achievement—a culture that not only helped her become a novelist but also influenced her fiction.
