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Jane Austen's Sanditon By Jane Austen

Jane Austen's Sanditon by Jane Austen


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Innovative essay by leading scholar, examining the Austen phenomenon, with newly edited Sanditon text.

Jane Austen's Sanditon Summary

Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd by Jane Austen

Sanditon is Jane Austens 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 Austens life and work, Sanditons connection with Northanger Abbey (1819) and Emma (1816), Jane Austens insecurity of income and home, and the Austen familys financial speculations. She examines the works 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, Sanditons characters follow intuition and bodily signs), she shows Austens 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.

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GOR010128923
9781909572218
1909572217
Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd by Jane Austen
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Fentum Press
2019-06-21
208
N/A
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