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Hardcover Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism and the Possibility of a Happy Ending Book

ISBN: 1403997470

ISBN13: 9781403997470

Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism and the Possibility of a Happy Ending

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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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