General consent in Jane Austen : a study of dialogism

General consent in Jane Austen : a study of dialogism / Barbara K. Seeber.

"Readings of Jane Austen tend to be polarized: she is seen either as conformist - the prevalent view - or quietly subversive. In General Consent in Jane Austen Barbara Seeber overcomes this critical stalemate, arguing that general consent does not exist as a given in Austen's texts. Instea...

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Main Author: Seeber, Barbara Karolina, 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca [NY] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Political and social views.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817
Austen, Jane.
Consensus (Social sciences) in literature.
Dialogism (Literary analysis)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
FICTION > General.
Consensus (Social sciences) in literature
Political and social views
Roman
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Summary:"Readings of Jane Austen tend to be polarized: she is seen either as conformist - the prevalent view - or quietly subversive. In General Consent in Jane Austen Barbara Seeber overcomes this critical stalemate, arguing that general consent does not exist as a given in Austen's texts. Instead, her texts reveal the process of manufacturing consent - of achieving ideological dominance by silencing dissent. Drawing on the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Seeber interrogates academic and popular constructions of Jane Austen, opening up Austen's "unresolvable dialogues.""--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 160 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index.
ISBN:9780773568549
0773568549
1282858734
9781282858732
9786612858734
6612858737
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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