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Romancing Jane Austen

Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending

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Authors:
  1. Ashley Tauchert

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: The Persistence of Jane Austen’s Romance

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    Pages 1-26

  3. Northanger Abbey: ‘hastening together to perfect felicity’

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    Pages 27-48

  4. Sense and Sensibility: ‘her opinions are all romantic’

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    Pages 49-72

  5. Pride and Prejudice: ‘Lydia’s gape’

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    Pages 73-92

  6. Mansfield Park: ‘she does not like to act’

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    Pages 93-110

  7. Emma: ‘the operation of the same system in another way’

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    Pages 111-136

  8. Persuasion: ‘loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone’

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    Pages 137-155

  9. Conclusion: ‘such an alternative as this had not occurred to her’

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    Pages 156-169

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 170-192
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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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  • University of Exeter, UK

    Ashley Tauchert

About the author

ASHLEY TAUCHERT is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Exeter University, UK. Her previous works include Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine and Gender, Teaching and Research in Higher Education.

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