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Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions

Name: Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions
Author: Jill Heydt-Stevenson
ISBN: 9780230602489

by Jill Heydt-Stevenson

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Overview

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.

Synopsis

Jane Austen: Body, Humor, and History 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.

About the Author, Jill Heydt-Stevenson

Jill Heydt-Stevenson is Assistant Professor of English in the departments of English and Comparative Literature/Humanities, University of Colorado, Boulder.