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1 online resource (201 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Preface -- From Quixote to Galatea -- Pride and Prejudice's vanishing narrator -- Emma and the betrayal of Fanny Knight -- Propositioning the reader in Northanger Abbey -- "She felt its application to herself": Persuasion's consolations -- Conclusion: the waning of application. |
Summary |
Raff sets her study in the early nineteenth century world, depicting the cultural debates and literary fandom that provided Austen a fertile playing field. She traces Austen's increasingly libidinal narrative presence (from early experiments in the narrator-reader relationship, to the seductive appeal of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and on to the outright authorial titillation of Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey), while simultaneously offering analysis of her biography that connects prose and life. She targets Austen's experience in 1814 as romantic advisor to h. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Influence.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. |
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Family.
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Families. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Eroticism in literature.
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Eroticism in literature. |
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Advice in literature.
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Advice in literature. |
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Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Influence.
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Women novelists, English. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Raff, Sarah. Jane Austen's erotic advice 9780199760336 (DLC) 2013028789 (OCoLC)857717675 |
ISBN |
9780199970278 (electronic book) |
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0199970270 (electronic book) |
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1306156092 |
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9781306156097 |
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9780199760336 |
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0199760330 |
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