Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism and The Possibility of a Happy Ending

by A. Tauchert

Overview

We celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the 'perfect happiness' that can only be realized in the romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history. A happy ending for the feminine subject? But that would be against all the empirical odds...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403997470
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/16/2005
Series:	Language, Discourse, Society Series
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Persistence of Jane Austen's Romance Hastening Together to Perfect Felicity Her Opinions are all Romantic Lydia's Tremendous Gape She Does Not Like To Act The Operation of the Same System in Another Way Loving Longest, When Existence or When Hope is Gone Conclusion: The Possibility of a Happy Ending Notes Bibliography