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Romancing Jane Austen : Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (1st ed. 2005)

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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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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
1349546356 / 9781349546350
Paperback / softback
823.7
16/12/2005
United Kingdom
192 pages, XV, 192 p.
140 x 216 mm