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Jane Austen's Sanditon
With an Essay by Janet Todd
Sanditon is Jane Austen’s last novel, unfinished when she died in 1817.
A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote
as a teenager and in private throughout her life. In her ground-breaking Les mer
A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote
as a teenager and in private throughout her life. In her ground-breaking Les mer
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Sanditon is Jane Austen’s last novel, unfinished when she died in 1817.
A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote
as a teenager and in private throughout her life. In her ground-breaking
essay, Todd contextualizes Austen’s life and work, Sanditon’s
connection with Northanger Abbey (1819) and Emma (1816), Jane
Austen’s insecurity of income and home, and the Austen family’s
financial speculations. She examines the work’s discussion of the moral
and social problems of capitalism, entrepreneurship, and growing
tourism, and their effect on traditional values and rural communities.
Todd explains the early nineteenth-century culture of self: the
exploitation of hypochondria, health fads, seaside resorts, and miracle
cures. Arguing that Sanditon is an innovative, ebullient study of human
beings ’ vagaries (rather than using common sense, Sanditon’s
characters follow intuition and bodily signs), she shows Austen’s
themes to be akin to contemporary concerns about self-obsession and
the culture of narcissism, as well as a comic study of the gap between
how we think of ourselves and how we appear and sound to others.
A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote
as a teenager and in private throughout her life. In her ground-breaking
essay, Todd contextualizes Austen’s life and work, Sanditon’s
connection with Northanger Abbey (1819) and Emma (1816), Jane
Austen’s insecurity of income and home, and the Austen family’s
financial speculations. She examines the work’s discussion of the moral
and social problems of capitalism, entrepreneurship, and growing
tourism, and their effect on traditional values and rural communities.
Todd explains the early nineteenth-century culture of self: the
exploitation of hypochondria, health fads, seaside resorts, and miracle
cures. Arguing that Sanditon is an innovative, ebullient study of human
beings ’ vagaries (rather than using common sense, Sanditon’s
characters follow intuition and bodily signs), she shows Austen’s
themes to be akin to contemporary concerns about self-obsession and
the culture of narcissism, as well as a comic study of the gap between
how we think of ourselves and how we appear and sound to others.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Fentum Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 208
- ISBN
- 9781909572218
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
Om forfatteren
Janet Todd (Radiation Diaries, Aphra Behn: A Secret Life, A Man of Genius, Lady Susan Plays the Game) is a leading scholar and editor of Jane Austen's work. The General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, editor of Jane Austen in Context, and author of The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen, she is a former president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, a novelist, biographer, and literary critic, she is an Emerita Professor at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Born in Wales, she grew up in Britain, Bermuda and Ceylon/Sri Lanka and has worked at universities in Ghana, Puerto Rico, India, the US (Douglass College, Rutgers, University of Florida), Scotland (Glasgow, Aberdeen) and England (Cambridge, UEA). She is completing her third novel, Don't You Know There's a War On? (2019) and lives in Cambridge and Venice.
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