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General consent in Jane Austen :

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General consent in Jane Austen :

[Book]

a study of dialogism /

Barbara K. Seeber.

Ithaca [NY] :

McGill-Queen's University Press,

c2000.

x, 160 p. ;

24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-153) and index.

"I see every thing - as you can desire me to do" : the scolding and schooling of Marianne Dashwood in Sense and sensibility -- " Exactly the something which her home required" : the "unmerited punishment of Harriet Smith in Emma -- "A corrupted, vitiated mind" : the decline of Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park -- "You are never sure of a good impression being durable" : the fall of Louisa Musgrove in Persuasion -- "An itch for acting" : Playing with Polyphony in Mansfied Park -- "Surely this comparison must have its use" : the "very strong resemblance" in Sense and sensibility -- "My expressions startle you" : an "injured, angry woman" in Persuasion -- "We must forget it" : the "unhappy truth" in Pride and prejudice -- "No tread of violence was ever heard" : Silent suffering in Mansfield Park -- "Unnatural and overdrawn" : "Alarming violence" in Northanger Abbey -- "This ill-used girl, this heroine of distress" : the "diabolical scheme" in Lady Susan.

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"Readings of Jane Austen tend to be polarized: she is seen either as conformist - the prevalent view - or quietly subversive. In General Consent in Jane Austen Barbara Seeber overcomes this critical stalemate, arguing that general consent does not exist as a given in Austen's texts. Instead, her texts reveal the process of manufacturing consent - of achieving ideological dominance by silencing dissent. Drawing on the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Seeber interrogates academic and popular constructions of Jane Austen, opening up Austen's "unresolvable dialogues.""--BOOK JACKET.

Austen, Jane,1775-1817-- Political and social views.

Consensus (Social sciences) in literature.

Dialogism (Literary analysis)

Seeber, Barbara Karolina,1968-

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