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English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Austen, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Jane Austen Society of North America --- Jane Austen Society of North America. --- Critique et interprétation --- Périodiques.

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This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that the idea of the medieval past is central to the work of novelists and directors interested in embodiment and vulnerability. Careful and illuminating analysis of particular moments in fiction, film, and political discourse dismantles the false binary between popular and intellectual medievalisms, which rests on gendered understandings of genre and audience, while demonstrating that masculinist or patriarchal medievalisms have an equal but understudied counterpart.The book's first three chapters cover Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and its afterlives, the final works of Virginia Woolf, and late twentieth-century film and music videos from the United States. The final chapter examines the treatment of women's bodies and vulnerability in both political theory and recent electoral politics, arguing that they share a common thread of misogyny rooted in the idea of the medieval past, and that one way to challenge that misogyny is by looking at complex feminist engagements with that same past, both real and imagined.

Feminist literature. --- Chaucer. --- Embodied medievalism. --- Jane Austen. --- Northanger Abbey. --- Virginia Woolf.

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"Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington intervenes in the critical conversation that has long defined Romanticism as an apocalyptic field. "Apocalypse" means "the revelation of a perfected world," which sees Romanticism's back-to-nature environmentalism as a return to paradise and peace on earth. Romantic Revelations, however, demonstrates that the destructive climate change events of 1816, "the year without a summer," changed Romantic thinking about the environment and the end of the world. Their post-apocalyptic visions correlate to the beginning of the Anthropocene, the time when humans initiated the possible extinction of their own species and potentially the earth. Rather than constructing paradises where humans are reborn or human existence ends, the later Romantics are interested in how to survive in the ashes after great social and climatic global disasters. Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics."--

English literature --- Apocalyptic literature --- History and criticism. --- 1700-1899 --- Great Britain. --- Anthropocene. --- Frankenstein. --- Jane Austen. --- Lord Byron. --- Mary Shelley. --- Percy Shelley. --- Romanticism. --- apocalypse. --- climate change. --- environmental history. --- history of literature. --- literary criticism. --- post-apocalyptic Romanticism. --- post-apocalyptic literature.

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Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her successors Waugh and Amis-comic novelists all. And comedy is the connection between these twelve elegant essays by the distinguished academic Bruce Stovel, who most lovingly engages Austen herself through his studies of her comic novels, her art of conversation, her pleasure principle, and her prayers. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel, the collection includes an introduction by Juliet McMaster and an afterword by Isobel Grundy.

Novelists, English --- Humorous stories, English --- English novelists --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism. --- Austen, Jane, --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Contemporaries. --- 820 "18" AUSTEN, JANE --- 820 "18" AUSTEN, JANE Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--AUSTEN, JANE --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--AUSTEN, JANE --- History and criticism --- Criticism and interpretation --- Essays. --- Jane Austen Studies. --- Literary Criticism.

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Are Jane Austen's novels sexy? For many Austen lovers, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" From the moment Colin Firth stripped down to his breeches and shirt in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice, screen adaptations inspired by Austen's novels have banked on their ability to depict sexual tension and romantic desire. Meanwhile, the success of spin-offs, sequels, and elaborations confirms that Austen's novels have become a potent aphrodisiac for everyday readers. Clearly, the fourteen million viewers who watched Firth's unveiling were onto something: Austen's novels turn people on. Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond brings together a range of voices-from literary scholars to video game designers-to explore how different types of readers experience the realm of desire and the erotic in all things Austen. In this timely collection, writers, critics, journalists, and authors of internet content weigh in on sex and romance in Austen's works and in the conversations and creations the novels inspire-from sequels to critical analyses to online role-playing games. Contributors examine what is at stake for each set of Austen enthusiasts when Eros is added to the equation, in so doing building on the long tradition of Austen criticism and enriching our appreciation of the novels.

Love in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Austen, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Austen enthusiasts. --- Eros. --- Jane Austen. --- Regency. --- aphrodisiac. --- celebrity. --- courtship. --- desire. --- engagement. --- erotic power. --- fan fiction. --- fandom. --- feminism. --- film. --- flirtation. --- language. --- libertine. --- libido. --- marriage. --- mini-series. --- novels. --- online role-playing games. --- passion. --- pastiche. --- periodicals. --- pleasure. --- popular culture. --- pornography. --- promiscuity. --- readers. --- romantic desire. --- screen adaptations. --- sequels. --- sexual tension. --- spin-offs.