Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

by Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

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Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrate--or undermine--romance and happy endings?

How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers' thirst for romance? In Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Austen scholar Inger Sigrun Bredkj r Brodey journeys through the iconic novelist's books in the first full-length study of Austen's...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1421448203

ISBN13:9781421448206

Release Date:June 2024

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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