Jane Austen Jane Austen's Sanditon (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Jane Austen's SanditonCondition: NewEAN: 9781909572218ISBN: 9781909572218Publisher: Fentum PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/21/2019Author: Jane AustenContributor: Janet Todd (Supplement by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: With an Essay by Janet ToddDescription: Sanditon is Jane Austen’s last novel, unfinished when she died in 1817.A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wroteas a teenager and in private throughout her life. In her ground-breakingessay, Todd contextualizes Austen’s life and work, Sanditon’sconnection with Northanger Abbey (1819) and Emma (1816), JaneAusten’s insecurity of income and home, and the Austen family’sfinancial speculations. She examines the work’s discussion of the moraland social problems of capitalism, entrepreneurship, and growingtourism, and their effect on traditional values and rural communities.Todd explains the early nineteenth-century culture of self: theexploitation of hypochondria, health fads, seaside resorts, and miraclecures. Arguing that Sanditon is an innovative, ebullient study of humanbeings ’ vagaries (rather than using common sense, Sanditon’scharacters follow intuition and bodily signs), she shows Austen’sthemes to be akin to contemporary concerns about self-obsession andthe culture of narcissism, as well as a comic study of the gap betweenhow we think of ourselves and how we appear and sound to others.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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