Historical Austen

by William H Galperin

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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...

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  • ISBN10 1322510695
  • ISBN13 9781322510699
  • Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 10 January 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 27 May 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 295
  • Language English