Though there has been much discussion of the uses of literature for social analysis, this is the first book-length work that takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis.
Though there has been much discussion of the uses of literature for social analysis, this is the first book-length work that takes the complete body o...
With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis. Authors Handler and Segal have approached Jane Austen's writing as a source for interpreting the cultural ideology of kinship, social rank, courtship, and marriage in Austen's England. Arguing against the conventional reading of Austen as portrayer and upholder of a well-ordered society, they evaluate the rhetorical techniques that make Austen an...
With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major no...
