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Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History 2005 Edition
Contributor(s): Heydt-Stevenson, J. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1403964106     ISBN-13: 9781403964106
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2005
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Annotation: This new work investigates the role that dissident comedy plays in Austen's writings. Using sexuality as a lens upon circa-1800 literary culture, this book emphasizes the physical life of Austen's heroines, and contributes to recent analyses of popular culture and material history. Heydt-Stevenson argues that Austen's novels explore the physical, erotic, humorous, and sometimes tragically funny connotations of popular literature and commonplace books; of clothing, jewelry, and crafts; of travel and tourism. Through an examination of Austen's humor and linguistic patterns, this book interrogates the stereotypes of women authors as culturally inhibited, and shows how Austen addressed as sophisticated and worldly an audience as Byron's. Through her careful reading of all the Austen texts in light of the language of eroticism, both traditional and contemporary, Heydt-Stevenson re-evaluates Austen's audience, the novels, and her role as a writer.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century
Dewey: 823.7
LCCN: 2004044504
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.18" W x 8.56" L (1.13 lbs) 275 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
 
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Austen'sUnbecomingConjunctions is a contemporary study of all Jane Austen's writings focusing on her representation of women, sexuality, the material objects, and linguistic patterns by which this sexuality was expressed. Heydt-Stevenson demonstrates the subtle, vulgar, and humorous ways Austen uses human bodies, objects, and activities (fashion, jewelry, crafts, popular literature, travel and tourism, money, and courtship rituals) to convey sexuality and sexual appetites. Through the sexual subtext, Heydt-Stevenson proposes, Austen satirized contemporary sexual hypocrisy; overcame the stereotypes of women authors as sexually inhibited, sheltered, or repressed; and addressed as sophisticated and worldly an audience as Byron's. Thus through her careful reading of all the Austen texts in light of the language of eroticism, both traditional and contemporary, Heydt-Stevenson re-evaluates Austen's audience, the novels, and her role as a writer.
 
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