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1 online resource (x, 160 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index. |
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"I see every thing -- as you can desire me to do" : the scolding and schooling of Marianne Dashwood in Sense and sensibility -- " Exactly the something which her home required" : the "unmerited punishment of Harriet Smith in Emma -- "A corrupted, vitiated mind" : the decline of Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park -- "You are never sure of a good impression being durable" : the fall of Louisa Musgrove in Persuasion -- "An itch for acting" : Playing with Polyphony in Mansfied Park -- "Surely this comparison must have its use" : the "very strong resemblance" in Sense and sensibility -- "My expressions startle you" : an "injured, angry woman" in Persuasion -- "We must forget it" : the "unhappy truth" in Pride and prejudice -- "No tread of violence was ever heard" : Silent suffering in Mansfield Park -- "Unnatural and overdrawn" : "Alarming violence" in Northanger Abbey -- "This ill-used girl, this heroine of distress" : the "diabolical scheme" in Lady Susan. |
| Summary |
"Readings of Jane Austen tend to be polarized: she is seen either as conformist - the prevalent view - or quietly subversive. In General Consent in Jane Austen Barbara Seeber overcomes this critical stalemate, arguing that general consent does not exist as a given in Austen's texts. Instead, her texts reveal the process of manufacturing consent - of achieving ideological dominance by silencing dissent. Drawing on the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Seeber interrogates academic and popular constructions of Jane Austen, opening up Austen's "unresolvable dialogues.""--Jacket. |
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Print version record. |
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Political and social views.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. (OCoLC)fst00032929
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Austen, Jane.
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Austen, Jane.
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Consensus (Social sciences) in literature.
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Dialogism (Literary analysis)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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FICTION -- General.
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Consensus (Social sciences) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00875474
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Dialogism (Literary analysis) (OCoLC)fst00892485
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Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986
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Roman.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Seeber, Barbara Karolina, 1968- General consent in Jane Austen. Montreal ; Ithaca [NY] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000 077352066X (DLC) 2001411310 (OCoLC)43390839 |
| ISBN |
9780773568549 (electronic bk.) |
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0773568549 (electronic bk.) |
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