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We celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the 'perfect happiness' that can only be realized in the romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history. A happy ending for the feminine subject? But that would be against all the empirical odds...The book, Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending (Language, Discourse, Society) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781349546350 in Paperback by A. Tauchert may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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