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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Table of Contents:
  • "I see every thing
  • as you can desire me to do" : the scolding and schooling of Marianne Dashwood in Sense and sensibility
  • " Exactly the something which her home required" : the "unmerited punishment of Harriet Smith in Emma
  • "A corrupted, vitiated mind" : the decline of Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park
  • "You are never sure of a good impression being durable" : the fall of Louisa Musgrove in Persuasion
  • "An itch for acting" : Playing with Polyphony in Mansfied Park
  • "Surely this comparison must have its use" : the "very strong resemblance" in Sense and sensibility
  • "My expressions startle you" : an "injured, angry woman" in Persuasion
  • "We must forget it" : the "unhappy truth" in Pride and prejudice
  • "No tread of violence was ever heard" : Silent suffering in Mansfield Park
  • "Unnatural and overdrawn" : "Alarming violence" in Northanger Abbey
  • "This ill-used girl, this heroine of distress" : the "diabolical scheme" in Lady Susan.

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