| Description |
xiii, 175 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: the Politics of 'Jane Austen' -- 2. The Canny 'Becomes' the Uncanny: Northanger Abbey -- 3. A Sensitive Subject: Sense and Sensibility -- 4. Pride and Prejudice: or Property and Propriety? -- 5. 'Capital Gratifications' and the Spirit of Mansfield -- 6. Imagining Emma Imagining: Emma -- 7. 'Jane's Fighting Ships': Persuasion as Cultural Critique -- 8. Props and Properties: Social Imaginaries in Recent Screen Adaptations |
| Summary |
Jane Austen is one of the great formative influences on thinking about 'England' and 'Englishness', about class, ideology and gender issues. But this book shows how the critical convoy for 'Jane' has aligned her with conservative views which her texts entertain - but don't avow. Indeed attempts to conscript her work for a rather crusty, Tory view of life ironically deflect attention from what, ultimately, she is to be valued for. Although there is an 'Austen industry' and a fairly settled consensus on what she signifies, Edward Neill shows that this is largely illusion, and that much traditional criticism has been fundamentally misdirected |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-170) and index |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Political and social views.
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Political fiction, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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| LC no. |
98031055 |
| ISBN |
0312218729 |
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0333747194 |
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