Bibliograph

Why Jane Austen?, Rachel M. Brownstein

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Why Jane Austen?, Rachel M. Brownstein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-266) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why Jane Austen?

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Rachel M. Brownstein

Summary

Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane

Table Of Contents

Why we read Jane Austen -- Looking for Jane -- Neighbors -- Authors -- Why we reread Jane Austen

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