LIFE AND WORK, TRADITION, EARLY NOVELS. LATER NOVEL

Barbara Pym (Twayne's English Authors Series)

Literature & Fiction

Nardin, Jane

History & Criticism

Twayne Pub

Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view. 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. Professor Nardin applies this general viewpoint on Jane Austen’s art in her examination of the way Jane Austen uses ideas about propriety in her six novels. For Jane Austen, a person’s social behavior―the code of propriety by which he lives―is the external manifestation of his internal moral character. What is the relationship between the conventionally accepted rules of propriety by which the gentry of Jane Austen’s era regulated their lives and a morally valid standard of social behavior? This is an important question throughout Jane Austen’s work. Those Elegant Decorums is a detailed study of the answers Jane Austen suggests in each novel.

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

History

State Univ of New York Pr

Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view.

Religion & Spirituality

State University of New York Press

It's 1857, and the four teenage May sisters are enjoying an endless round of parties in the colonial town of Shivapur. When a violent rebellion breaks out, they take refuge in an isolated Indian village. Each changes in her own way as they adjust to a new culture, but they all begin to question England's right to rule India. As the rebellion ends, the sisters return home to take up the threads of their old life... with a difference. Soon they discover that their mother has matrimonial plans for them- plans they are determined to resist.  Louise May Alcott meets Jane Austen in this hilarious blend of adventure, history, and, of course, romance.

Little Women In India

Genre Fiction

New Dawn Publishers Ltd

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Barbara Pym (Twayne's English Authors Series)

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

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

Little Women In India