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Bezig met laden... The Historical Austendoor William H. Galperin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The Historical Austen offers insightful deconstructive readings of Jane Austen’s novels. Unfortunately, Galperin’s prose suffers from a serious case of dissertation disease, that is prose designed to impress by making the argument as impenetrable as possible, especially in discussing theory. But once he gets into the details of the novels, he argues persuasively for some original interpretations. He rescues Willoughby’s reputation in Sense and Sensibility by showing that Colonel Brandon is a self-interested tattletale. In Pride and Prejudice, he says Austen treats Darcy and his estate picturesquely. Thus, when Elizabeth visits there, she puts herself in the picture by imagining herself as mistress of the place, robbing her of much of her agency. In discussing Emma, he points to some evidence that Mr. Knightly may have had a romantic relationship with Miss. Bates and that Emma may be sexually attracted to Harriet. When Anne Eliot rekindles her romance with Captain Wentworth and regains her youthful bloom, she becomes a traditional romantic heroine but loses some of the freedom she had as a self-acknowledged spinster. The book is worth reading, you can wade through it. 4 stars. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive. Reading the history of her novels' reception through other histories-literary, aesthetic, and social-The Historical Austen is a major reassessment of Jane Austen's achievement as well as a corrective to the historical Austen that abides in literary scholarship. In contrast to interpretations that stress the conservative aspects of the realistic tradition that Austen helped to codify, Galperin takes his lead from Austen's contemporaries, who were struck by her detailed attention to the dynamism of everyday life. Noting how the very act of reading demarcates an horizon of possibility at variance with the imperatives of plot and narrative authority, The Historical Austen sees Austen's development as operating in two registers. Although her writings appear to serve the interests of probability in representing "things as they are," they remain, as her contemporaries dubbed them, histories of the present, where reality and the prospect of change are continually intertwined. In a series of readings of the six completed novels, in addition to the epistolary Lady Susan and the uncompleted Sanditon, Galperin offers startling new interpretations of these texts, demonstrating the extraordinary awareness that Austen maintained not only with respect to her narrative practice-notably, free indirect discourse-but also with attention to the novel's function as a social and political instrument. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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