Jane Austen and the Morality of ConversationAnthem Press, 2003 - 305 pages This important study investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation. In a wide-ranging argument combining intellectual history and literary stylistics, Bharat Tandon explores such activities as flirtation and ventriloquism, in order to show how a form of conversational morality is what Austen's novels both describe and set out to achieve. |
Table des matières
Austens Early Fiction | 55 |
Flirting | 76 |
Throwing the Voice | 112 |
Habit and Habitation | 176 |
Notes | 243 |
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