Searching for Jane AustenUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 2004 - 344 páginas Searching for Jane Austen demolishes with wit and vivacity the often-held view of "Jane," a decorous maiden aunt writing her small drawing-room stories of teas and balls. Emily Auerbach presents a different Jane Austen--a brilliant writer who, despite the obstacles facing women of her time, worked seriously on improving her craft and became one of the world's greatest novelists, a master of wit, irony, and character development. In this beautifully illustrated and lively work, Auerbach surveys two centuries of editing, censoring, and distorting Austen's life and writings. Auerbach samples Austen's flamboyant, risqué adolescent works featuring heroines who get drunk, lie, steal, raise armies, and throw rivals out of windows. She demonstrates that Austen constantly tested and improved her skills by setting herself a new challenge in each of her six novels. In addition, Auerbach considers Austen's final irreverent writings, discusses her tragic death at the age of forty-one, and ferrets out ridiculous modern adaptations and illustrations, including ads, cartoons, book jackets, newspaper articles, plays, and films from our own time. An appendix reprints a ground-breaking article that introduced Mark Twain's "Jane Austen," an unfinished and unforgettable essay in which Twain and Austen enter into mortal combat. |
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... Feel all the rage that female rivals feel : The prize of beauty in a woman's eyes Not brighter than in theirs the scholar's prize . 19 Refuting this suggestion that boys strive for learning while girls value looks , Austen offers in ...
... Feel all the rage that female rivals feel : The prize of beauty in a woman's eyes Not brighter than in theirs the scholar's prize . 19 Refuting this suggestion that boys strive for learning while girls value looks , Austen offers in ...
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... feel - it is that he is afraid to feel . He has been taught . . . that feeling is bad form . He must not express great joy or sorrow , or even open his mouth too wide when he talks - his pipe might fall out if he did . " 18 Both ...
... feel - it is that he is afraid to feel . He has been taught . . . that feeling is bad form . He must not express great joy or sorrow , or even open his mouth too wide when he talks - his pipe might fall out if he did . " 18 Both ...
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... feel like a barkeeper entering the Kingdom of Heaven . I mean , I feel as he would probably feel , would almost certainly feel . I am quite sure I know what his sensations would be - and his private comments . He would be certain to ...
... feel like a barkeeper entering the Kingdom of Heaven . I mean , I feel as he would probably feel , would almost certainly feel . I am quite sure I know what his sensations would be - and his private comments . He would be certain to ...
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Putting Her Down and Touching Her Up | 3 |
Jane Austens Early Writings | 41 |
Northanger Abbey | 70 |
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