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Helena Kelly

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

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'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian
Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly — we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years.
Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects — feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution — at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason.
Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.
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428 бумажных страниц
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2016
Год выхода издания
2016
Издательство
Icon Books
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  • b1253435000цитирует4 года назад
    The presence of the militia in the novel, then, introduces layer upon layer of anxiety. There’s the anxiety which always attaches to the sudden arrival of large numbers of strange men in a neighbourhood. Elizabeth really isn’t wise to walk alone, as she does early in the novel. It’s noticeable that she stops doing it. But there are also political anxieties – what if the strange men become radicalised?
  • b1253435000цитирует4 года назад
    The militia aren’t in the novel to provide young men for the Bennet girls to dance with; they bring with them an atmosphere which is highly politically charged, they trail clouds of danger – images of a rebellious populace, of government repression and, more distant but insistent nevertheless, the fear of what might happen if the men in the militia, the troops, mutiny. The militia embody one of the central questions of the age – who should you be afraid of?

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