《简·奥斯汀:写作、社会、政治》JANE AUSTEN: WRITING, SOCIETY, POLITICS
中文书名:《简•奥斯汀:写作、社会、政治》
英文书名:JANE AUSTEN: WRITING, SOCIETY, POLITICS
作 者:Tom Keymer
出 版 社:Oxford University Press
代理公司:ANA/Jessica Wu
页 数:192页
出版时间:2020年9月
代理地区:中国大陆
审读资料:电子稿
类 型:文学研究
内容简介:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in Pride and Prejudice, it deftly introduces the novel's core themes of marriage, money, and social convention, themes that continue to resonate with readers over 200 years later.
Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of unpublished works. Her books pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and, despite some accusations of a blinkered domestic and romantic focus, they represent the world of their characters with unsparing clarity. Here, Tom Keymer explores the major themes throughout Austen's novels, setting them in the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which they emerge, and showing how they engage with social tensions in an era dominated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The Jane Austen who emerges is a writer shaped by the literary experiments and socio-political debates of her time, increasingly drawn to a fundamentally conservative vision of social harmony, yet forever complicating this vision through her disruptive ironies and satirical energy.
Key USPs:
Introduces the six major novels of Jane Austen, a perenially popular author, as well as her other writings
Combines critical introductions to each of Austen's six major novels with the exploration of key themes of her work
Emphasizes the social and historical context of Austen's fiction, and her satirical response to her contemporary world
Explores the literary and publishing context of Austen's fiction, and discusses her technical innovations
作者简介:
Tom Keymer is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman University Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous books about Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic-period literature and culture, including Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820 (OUP, 2019), Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (OUP, 2002), and, as editor, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 1: Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750 (OUP, 2017). He has also edited works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and others in the Oxford World's Classics series. He is General Editor of the Review of English Studies and co-General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson.
媒体评价:
"Janeites of all stripes should take note of this critically robust account."
----Everett Jones, Publishers Weekly
"To illuminate literary greatness in a short book is a tall order. Tom Keymer's Jane Austen: Writing, Society, and Politics delivers precisely that, with admirable clarity and characteristic brilliance, in a captivating style that's worthy of the author herself."
----Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen
Contents
Note on editions
Introduction
1. Jane Austen practising
2. The terrors of Northanger Abbey
3. Sense, sensibility, society
4. The voices of Pride and Prejudice
5. The silence at Mansfield Park
6. Emma and Englishness
7. Passion and Persuasion
Afterword
Timeline
References
Further reading
Index
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