{"product_id":"the-historical-austen-paperback","title":"The Historical Austen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Galperin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Historical Austen William H. Galperin Selected by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive. Reading the history of her novels' reception through other histories--literary, aesthetic, and social--\u003ci\u003eThe Historical Austen\u003c\/i\u003e is a major reassessment of Jane Austen's achievement as well as a corrective to the historical Austen that abides in literary scholarship. In contrast to interpretations that stress the conservative aspects of the realistic tradition that Austen helped to codify, Galperin takes his lead from Austen's contemporaries, who were struck by her detailed attention to the dynamism of everyday life. Noting how the very act of reading demarcates an horizon of possibility at variance with the imperatives of plot and narrative authority, \u003ci\u003eThe Historical Austen\u003c\/i\u003e sees Austen's development as operating in two registers. Although her writings appear to serve the interests of probability in representing \"things as they are,\" they remain, as her contemporaries dubbed them, histories of the present, where reality and the prospect of change are continually intertwined. In a series of readings of the six completed novels, in addition to the epistolary \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e and the uncompleted \u003ci\u003eSanditon\u003c\/i\u003e, Galperin offers startling new interpretations of these texts, demonstrating the extraordinary awareness that Austen maintained not only with respect to her narrative practice--notably, free indirect discourse--but also with attention to the novel's function as a social and political instrument. \u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Galperin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Visible in British Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e. 2002 296 pages 6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4 4 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1924-1 Paper $24.95s  16.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0201-4 Ebook $24.95s  16.50 World Rights Literature, Biography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam H. Galperin is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and author of The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 9.26 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722755706943,"sku":"9780812219241","price":48.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e7e6d42c98917a782b6dc6d05e332e66.webp?v=1765096839","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-historical-austen-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}