This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. Mary Waldron shows how Austen's novels exemplify the strong skepticism about contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction that is … Continue reading Book Suggestion: Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
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Austen’s Dangerous Books for Boys
As seen in the NY Times, Austen does prove to be good reading for boys as demonstrated throughout literary history with some of the manliest of men turning to Jane. Here is the link to this very insightful article: http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/austens-dangerous-books-for-boys/#more-1093
Book Suggestion: Jane Austen and her body
Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces, illness and health, in the novels, from complainers and invalids such as Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Woodhouse, to the frail, debilitated Fanny Price, the vulnerable … Continue reading Book Suggestion: Jane Austen and her body
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