LEADER 04441nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910462638803321 005 20211217005026.0 010 $a0-8122-0201-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202014 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418334 035 $a(OCoLC)859161615 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748769 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001077290 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11569211 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001077290 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11036156 035 $a(PQKB)11741876 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442219 035 $a(OCoLC)868220688 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29816 035 $a(DE-B1597)449057 035 $a(OCoLC)979577790 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202014 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748769 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682351 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418334 100 $a20060316h20052003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe historical Austen$b[electronic resource] /$fWilliam H. Galperin 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2005, c2003 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51069-5 311 0 $a0-8122-1924-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-271) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPART I. Historicizing Austen --$t1. History, Silence, and "The Trial of Jane Leigh Perrot" --$t2. The Picturesque, the Real, and the Consumption of Jane Austen --$t3. Why Jane Austen Is Not Frances Burney: Probability, Possibility, and Romantic Counterhegemony --$tPART II. Reading the Historical Austen --$t4. Lady Susan and the Failure of Austen's Early Published Novels --$t5. Narrative Incompetence in Northanger Abbey --$t6. Jane Austen's Future Shock --$t7. Nostalgia in Emma --$t8. The Body in Persuasion and Sanditon --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive. Reading the history of her novels' reception through other histories-literary, aesthetic, and social-The Historical Austen is a major reassessment of Jane Austen's achievement as well as a corrective to the historical Austen that abides in literary scholarship. In contrast to interpretations that stress the conservative aspects of the realistic tradition that Austen helped to codify, Galperin takes his lead from Austen's contemporaries, who were struck by her detailed attention to the dynamism of everyday life. Noting how the very act of reading demarcates an horizon of possibility at variance with the imperatives of plot and narrative authority, The Historical Austen sees Austen's development as operating in two registers. Although her writings appear to serve the interests of probability in representing "things as they are," they remain, as her contemporaries dubbed them, histories of the present, where reality and the prospect of change are continually intertwined. In a series of readings of the six completed novels, in addition to the epistolary Lady Susan and the uncompleted Sanditon, Galperin offers startling new interpretations of these texts, demonstrating the extraordinary awareness that Austen maintained not only with respect to her narrative practice-notably, free indirect discourse-but also with attention to the novel's function as a social and political instrument. 606 $aLiterature and history$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a823/.7 700 $aGalperin$b William H$0470996 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462638803321 996 $aThe historical Austen$92458249 997 $aUNINA