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Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

By: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

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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 full-length study of Austen's endings. Through a careful exploration of Austen's own writings and those of the authors she read during her lifetime—as well as recent cultural reception and adaptations of her novels—Brodey examines the contradictions that surround this queen of romance. Brodey argues that Austen's surprising choices in her endings are an essential aspect of the writer's own sense of the novel and its purpose. Austen's fiercely independent and deeply humanistic ideals led her to develop a style of ending all her own. Writing in a culture that set a monetary value on success in marriage and equated matrimony with happiness, Austen questions these cultural norms and makes her readers work for their comic conclusions, carefully anticipating and shaping her readers' emotional involvement in her novels. Providing innovative and engaging readings of Austen's novels, Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness traces her development as an author and her convictions about authorship, novels, and the purpose of domestic fiction. In a review of modern film adaptions of Austen's work, the book also offers new interpretations while illustrating how contemporary ideas of marriage and happiness have shaped Austen's popular currency in the Anglophone world and beyond.

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1421448211

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Ruined by Design

Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility

By: Inger Sigrun Brodey

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Ruined by Design

Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility

By: Inger Sigrun Brodey

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 of ruins lends a distinctive shape to the architecture and literature of the time and requires the novel to adjust notions of authorship and narrative to accommodate the prevailing aesthetic. Just as architects of eighteenth-century follies pretend to have discovered "authentic" ruins, novelists within the culture of sensibility also build purposely fragmented texts and disguise their authorship, invoking highly artificial means of simulating nature. The cultural pursuit of human ruin, however, leads to hypocritical and sadistic extremes that put an end to the characteristic ambivalence of sensibility and its unusual structures.

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Routledge

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1136095306

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My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

and the Philosophical Foundations of Literature

By: Natsume Soseki,Inger Brodey

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My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

and the Philosophical Foundations of Literature

By: Natsume Soseki,Inger Brodey

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 which Soseki believed modern man was dislocated from Japan's past as well as its future, he defines the role of art and the artist in light of the loneliness and individualism of the modern world. True to his self-conscious style, each essay includes individual biographical anecdotes, inviting their allegorical reading as stories about the fate of Japan. In My Individualism, Soseki gives a rare account of his stay in London from the perspective of twelve years after his return, allowing us to see the profound shift in his thinking about literature that occurred during this time. In The Philosophical Foundations of Literature, we find one of Soseki's principal attempts to provide a cross-cultural framework for the interpretation of literature. Together, the essays reveal Soseki's attempts to create a theory of literature that is characteristically Japanese.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462902227

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Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

By: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

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By: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen gives her readers the happy ending they crave, but leaves its price tag attached"--

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1421448203

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Ruined by Design

Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility

By: Inger Sigrun Brodey

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My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

and the Philosophical Foundations of Literature

By: Natsume Soseki,Inger Brodey

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Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Ruined by Design

Ruined by Design

My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Ruined by Design

Ruined by Design

My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

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