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Jane Austen and Literary Theory

Jane Austen and Literary Theory

Authors
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year 12/03/2021
Pages 168
Version hardback
Readership level Professional and scholarly
Language English
ISBN 9780367696443
Categories Literary theory
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Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that by reading her critics. Perhaps no canonical author in English literature has proven, until now, more resistant to theory. Tracing the political motives for this resistance, Jane Austen and Literary Theory proceeds to counteract it. The book's detailed interpretations guide readers through some of the important intellectual achievements of Austen's career-from the stunning teenage parodies "Evelyn" and "The History of England" to her most accomplished novels, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma. While criticism has largely been content to describe the various ways Austen was a product of her time, Jane Austen and Literary Theory reveals how she anticipated the ideas of formidable literary thinkers of the twentieth century, especially Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. Gift and exchange, speech and writing, symbol and allegory, stable irony and Romantic irony-these are just a few of the binary oppositions her dazzling texts deconstruct. Although her novels are major achievements of nineteenth-century realism, critics have hitherto underestimated their rhetorical cunning and their fascination with the materiality of language. Doing justice to Austen's language requires critical methods as ruthless as her irony, and Jane Austen and Literary Theory supplies these methods. This book will enable both her devotees and her detractors to appreciate her genius in unusual ways.

Jane Austen and Literary Theory

Table of contents

Introduction: Literary Theory and Austen Criticism





Deconstruction, Francophobia, Austen





Austen, Historicism, Theory





Austen and the Play of the Signifier





Chapter 1: "Evelyn" and the Impossibility of the Gift





"Evelyn" and Derridean Gift Theory





Literary Language and the Contradictions of the Gift





Austen, Derrida, and Capitalism





Chapter 2: Speech, Writing, and Allegory in Pride and Prejudice





Phonocentrism: From Derrida to the Eighteenth Century and Beyond





Phonocentrism in Pride and Prejudice





Writing's Rehabilitation





Dancing about Arche-Writing





Chapter 3: Allegory, Symbol, and Irony in Mansfield Park





Austen, Coleridge, Burke





The Fall of Symbol and the Rise of Allegory





Between Allegory and Irony: The Last Chapter





Between Allegory and Symbol: Lovers' Vows





Chapter 4: Emma's Parergonal Realism





Kant, Derrida, and the Parergon





Emma's "Schemes in the In-Betweens"





Parergonal Lack





Parergonal Verse / Parergonal Prose





Confronting Front Matter





Sex and Citationality





Emma's Headers and Footers





Horrors of Finery





Framing "Nothing"





Chapter 5: Austen's Unromantic Romantic Ironies





From Comic to (German) Romantic Irony





Theorizing Parabasis: Fichte, Schlegel, and de Man





Parabasis of Parabasis in Emma





Tracing Austen's Irony: "The History of England"





Closing the Ironic Opening of Pride and Prejudice





Mr. Bennet: Being Ironic





Irony and the Sublime

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