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S'està carregant… Growing Older with Jane Austende Maggie Lane
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A lively, well-researched, expert study of aging in the literature of Jane Austen There is no doubt that Jane Austen is enduringly popular with both a general readership and academics. But amid the wealth of approaches to her life and work, no one has made a full-length study of the concept of aging in her novels, and this book sets out to fill that gap. With chapters on the loss of youth and beauty, old wives, old maids, merry widows, and dowager despots, the theme allows for a lively exploration of many of Austen's most memorable characters. There are alsonbsp;chapters on hypochondria and illness, age and poverty, and death and wills. The book draws on the six novels, major literary fragments, Austen's own letters, and the reminiscences of family members and contemporaries. Real-life examples are used to underline the fidelity of Austen's fictional representation. Austen's wry approach to the perils and consolations of growing older is bound to strike chords with many. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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This book isn’t just about the fictional characters. It’s about the cultural behaviors and attitudes in place that Austen’s novels present as ordinary, or as Miss Bingley might phrase it “not out of the common way”. Different chapters touch on how the aging process might impact one’s social status and thus one’s circumstances in terms of residence or income. (For example, the chapter on Bath discusses how the population of Bath shifted over time from being a fashionable city full of attractions to members of the Court to being a less upscale environment, overpopulated with widows suddenly forced to relocate.) There are plenty of references to real places and individuals but less than might actually justify an index given over *solely* to real persons and historical sites.
If you read Jane Austen and Food by this author, and enjoyed it, I can recommend this one as well to you. It's very much in the same vein. ( )