9781403997470-1403997470-Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Language, Discourse, Society)

Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Language, Discourse, Society)

ISBN-13: 9781403997470
ISBN-10: 1403997470
Edition: 2005
Author: A. Tauchert
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover 207 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781403997470
ISBN-10: 1403997470
Edition: 2005
Author: A. Tauchert
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover 207 pages

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Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Language, Discourse, Society) (ISBN-13: 9781403997470 and ISBN-10: 1403997470), written by authors A. Tauchert, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2005. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Rhetoric (Words, Language & Grammar , Writing, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides, Women Writers, Women's Studies) books. You can easily purchase or rent Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Language, Discourse, Society) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Rhetoric books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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We celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the 'perfect happiness' that can only be realized in the romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history. A happy ending for the feminine subject? But that would be against all the empirical odds...

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