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Jane Austen`s Names - Riddles, Persons, Places; .
Taschenbuch von Margaret Doody
Sprache: Englisch

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In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid as she seems: according to legend, cunning Wiltshire residents caught hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a reputation for ignorance by claiming they were digging up a big cheese - the moon's reflection on the water's surface. It worked.
In Jane Austen's Names, Margaret Doody offers a fascinating and comprehensive study of all the names of people and places - real and imaginary - in Austen's fiction. Austen's creative choice of names reveals not only her virtuosic talent for riddles and puns. Her names also pick up deep stories from English history, especially the various civil wars, and the blood-tinged differences that played out in the reign of Henry VIII, a period to which she often returns. Considering the major novels alongside unfinished works and juvenilia, Doody shows how Austen's names signal class tensions as well as regional, ethnic, and religious differences. We gain a new understanding of Austen's technique of creative anachronism, which plays with and against her skillfully deployed realism - in her books, the conflicts of the past swirl into the tensions of the present, transporting readers beyond the Regency.
Full of insight and surprises for even the most devoted Janeite, Jane Austen's Names will revolutionize how we read Austen's fiction.
In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid as she seems: according to legend, cunning Wiltshire residents caught hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a reputation for ignorance by claiming they were digging up a big cheese - the moon's reflection on the water's surface. It worked.
In Jane Austen's Names, Margaret Doody offers a fascinating and comprehensive study of all the names of people and places - real and imaginary - in Austen's fiction. Austen's creative choice of names reveals not only her virtuosic talent for riddles and puns. Her names also pick up deep stories from English history, especially the various civil wars, and the blood-tinged differences that played out in the reign of Henry VIII, a period to which she often returns. Considering the major novels alongside unfinished works and juvenilia, Doody shows how Austen's names signal class tensions as well as regional, ethnic, and religious differences. We gain a new understanding of Austen's technique of creative anachronism, which plays with and against her skillfully deployed realism - in her books, the conflicts of the past swirl into the tensions of the present, transporting readers beyond the Regency.
Full of insight and surprises for even the most devoted Janeite, Jane Austen's Names will revolutionize how we read Austen's fiction.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Jane Austen
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226419107
ISBN-10: 022641910X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Doody, Margaret
Hersteller: University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: 25 halftones
Maße: 226 x 151 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Doody
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,658 kg
Artikel-ID: 108004428
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Jane Austen
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226419107
ISBN-10: 022641910X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Doody, Margaret
Hersteller: University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: 25 halftones
Maße: 226 x 151 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Doody
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,658 kg
Artikel-ID: 108004428
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