| Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Tandon, Bharat (Author) |
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ISBN: 184331102X ISBN-13: 9781843311027 Publisher: Anthem Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: In this dynamic new work, combining intellectual history and literary stylistics, Bharat Tandon confronts traditional "ethical" readings of Austen's novels that examine product over process. Reading Austen against the eighteenth-century culture of polite conversation, Tandon proposes that contemporary literature revealed cracks and faultlines in this regimented ideal of socially-binding politeness, and that Austen's style is an active reflection upon these historical circumstances. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.7 |
| LCCN: 2004401265 |
| Series: Anthem Nineteenth Century Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.12" W x 9.26" (1.01 lbs) 305 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This important study investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation. In a wide-ranging argument combining intellectual history and literary stylistics, Bharat Tandon explores such activities as flirtation and ventriloquism, in order to show how a form of conversational morality is what Austen's novels both describe and set out to achieve. |
