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Jane Austen and the romantic poets / William Deresiewicz.
LIBRA PR4038.L5 D47 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deresiewicz, William, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Knowledge and learning--Literature.
- Austen, Jane.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Literature.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation.
- English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 211 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on her later novels. In comparing the earlier and later phases of Austen's career, Deresiewicz addresses an important yet neglected issue regarding her work: the long-standing critical consensus that Austen's last three novels (Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion) represent far greater artistic achievements than do her first three (Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice).
- Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets offers a rich account of the differences between the two phases of Austen's career. In doing so, it contextualizes her later novels within the British Romantic movement and the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, and Byron. Through close readings of Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion, Deresiewicz reveals the importance of Romantic ideas in Austen's later work, considering the ways in which the novels investigate hidden mechanisms of psychic and affective life, including "substitution," "ambiguous relationships," and "widowhood." Deresiewicz's innovative approach and its emphasis on Romanticism open up new perspectives on Austen's later novels by exploring their patterns of imagery, narrative logics, and social and historical dimensions.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Early Phase Versus Major Phase: The Changing Feelings of the Mind 18
- Chapter 3 Mansfield Park: Substitution 56
- Chapter 4 Emma: Ambiguous Relationships 86
- Chapter 5 Persuasion: Widowhood and Waterloo 127.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231134142
- OCLC:
- 56567090
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