WHAT JANE AUSTEN'S CHARACTERS READ (AND WHY)

Libro

Editorial	Bloomsbury Academic
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	ALLEN FORD SUSAN
ISBN	9781350416710
Peso ( kg )	0,2
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2024
Formato	Tapa rustica
Sinopsis	WHAT JANE AUSTEN'S CHARACTERS READ AND WHY The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today. Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader, so it's perhaps no surprise that many of her characters are also readers-from Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice to Fanny Price in Mansfield Park. Beginning by looking at Austen's own reading as well as her interest in readers' responses to her work, the book then focuses on each of her novels, looking at the particulars of her characters' reading and unpacking the multiple and often surprising ways in which what they read informs our reading. What Jane Austen's Characters Read and Why uses Austen's own love of reading to invite us to rethink the ways in which she imagined her characters and their lives beyond the novels. Table of Contents Introduction: Drawing Character, Reading Books: Building a Society of Readers Chapter 1: "Her Reading Was Very Extensive": Austen and Her Community of Great Readers Chapter 2: Readers of Feeling: Northanger Abbey and Sensibility Chapter 3: "What Becomes of the Moral?" Reading Conduct Books and Pride and Prejudice Chapter 4: "In the Midst of Theatrical Nonsense": Performative Reading in Mansfield Park Chapter 5: Becoming a Renter, a Chuser of Books in Mansfield Park Chapter 6: Meaning to Read More: Emma and the Clever Reader Chapter 7: Readers of Romance: Persuasion and Sanditon Bibliography Edad recomendada: Adultos. ALLEN FORD SUSAN Susan Allen Ford es profesora de literatura inglesa y coordinadora del Centro de Escritura en Delta State University, Misisipi. Especialista en Jane Austen, ha publicado numerosos ensayos sobre la autora y su contexto literario, así como sobre ficción gótica y novela detectivesca. Es miembro vitalicio de la Jane Austen Society of North America JASNA y ha contribuido activamente a su revista Persuasions. Su enfoque académico combina análisis literario con sensibilidad histórica y cultural.
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