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Devoted fans and scholars of Jane Austenas well as skepticswill rejoice at Tony Tanners superb book on the incomparable novelist. Distilling twenty years of thinking and writing about Austen, Tanner treats in fresh and illuminating ways the questions that have always occupied her most perceptive critics. How can we reconcile the limited social world of her novels with the largeness of her vision? How does she deal with depicting a once-stable society that was changing alarmingly during her lifetime? How does she express and control the sexuality and violence beneath the well-mannered surface of her milieu? How does she resolve the problems of communication among characters pinioned by social reticences? Tanner guides us through Austens novels from relatively sunny early works to the darker, more pessimistic Persuasion and fragmentary Sanditon a journey that takes her from acceptance of a society maintained by landed property, family, money, and strict propriety through an insistence on the need for authentication of these values to a final skepticism and even rejection. In showing her progress from a parochial optimism to an ability to encompass her whole society, Tanner renews our

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Author

Tanner, Tony

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333323182

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

4 / 5 (44 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13