Language, Discourse, Society: Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending

Tauchert, A.

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...

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-12-16

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349546350

DOI: 10.1057/9780230599697

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 192