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  • Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

    by Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey ...
    Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrate—or undermine—romance and happy endings?How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers' thirst for romance? In Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Austen scholar Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey journeys through the iconic novelist's books in the first ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

    and the Philosophical Foundations of Literature

    by Natsume Soseki, Inger Brodey ...
    Translated by Sammy I. Tsunematsu ...
    Published here for the first time in English, My Individualism and The Philosophical Foundations of Literature are essays which explore issues close to famed Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume's heart: the philosophical and cultural significance of isolation, belonging and identity associated with rapid technological, industrial and cultural change. Set against the background of the Meiji era, in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ruined by Design

    Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility

    by Inger Sigrun Brodey ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship. This book argues that the rhetoric ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Jane Austen

    A Life

    by Carol Shields ...
    With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Jane Austen Education

    How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

    by William Deresiewicz ...
    An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature.In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Austen Years

    A Memoir in 5 Novels

    by Rachel Cohen ...
    A memoir chronicling the author's astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live.In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. Simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became Cohen's refuge and her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wild for Austen

    A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

    by Devoney Looser ...
    **USA Today Bestseller!Incisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser.**Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last in Wild for Austen. These, and many other events and characters, come to life ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jane Austen For Dummies

    by Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray ...
    Explains Austen's methods, motivations, and moralsThe fun and easy way(r) to understand and enjoy Jane AustenWant to know more about Jane Austen? This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life, examines each of her novels, and looks at why her stories - of women and marriage, class and money, scandal and ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • The Jane Austen Remedy

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book can change a life

    by Ruth Wilson ...
    An empowering memoir of a life reclaimed through reading.'Moving and inspiring, this is a book you want to start reading again, as soon as you have finished' SUSANNAH FULLERTON'Wilson's memoir is essential reading for anyone who wants to experience and understand the unique comfort that Austen's works universally provide.' NATALIE JENNERRuth Wilson first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the ... Read more

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  • A Natural History of the Romance Novel

    by Pamela Regis ...
    The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories that ignore issues ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen

    Edited by Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Companion offers clear, accessible coverage of the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. Major ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Jane Austen

    A Brief Life

    by Fiona Stafford ...
    Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by ... Read more

    $10.99 USD