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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... married woman " ( 317 ) . Rather than facing the fact that she has married a profligate man who stays with her only because he is paid to do so , Lydia milks her mo- ment of wedded importance : " Oh ! mamma , do the people here abouts ...
... married woman " ( 317 ) . Rather than facing the fact that she has married a profligate man who stays with her only because he is paid to do so , Lydia milks her mo- ment of wedded importance : " Oh ! mamma , do the people here abouts ...
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... marriage can possess " something so like perfect happiness " ( 468 , 432 ) . As in the case of the animated Elizabeth ... married & single " ( 8 February 1807 ) . Emma comes the closest of any Austen heroine to proving a young woman can ...
... marriage can possess " something so like perfect happiness " ( 468 , 432 ) . As in the case of the animated Elizabeth ... married & single " ( 8 February 1807 ) . Emma comes the closest of any Austen heroine to proving a young woman can ...
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... marriage ( though perhaps he had in mind his union with the unusual , highly intellectual Harriet Taylor ) , but Austen already had done so in Persuasion . Austen links a younger Sophy Croft to Anne Elliot by showing both as brides married ...
... marriage ( though perhaps he had in mind his union with the unusual , highly intellectual Harriet Taylor ) , but Austen already had done so in Persuasion . Austen links a younger Sophy Croft to Anne Elliot by showing both as brides married ...
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Putting Her Down and Touching Her Up | 3 |
Jane Austens Early Writings | 41 |
Northanger Abbey | 70 |
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