Those Elegant Decorums: The Concept of Propriety in Jane Austen's Novels

ISBN-13: 9781438442297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 178 str.

Jane Nardin

Opis

In Those Elegant Decorums Professor Nardin differs from the many critics who feel that Jane Austen's irony and her morality contradict each other. She analyzes the way in which Jane Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view. She demonstrates that the reader takes a journey of perception similar to that of the central characters in the novels, and that the correct interpretation of events is often unclear until well after the fact, despite the seeming aid of an apparently unbiased, omniscient narrator.