Jane Austen, the secret radical
(Adult Book)
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Published
London Icon, 2017.
Physical Desc
v, 337 pages illustrations (black and white) 20 cm
Status
City Library - Non-fiction
823.7
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823.7
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Published
London Icon, 2017.
Format
Adult Book
Language
English
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Originally published: 2016
Description
Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. 'Jane Austen, The Secret Radical' puts that right. Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects - feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution - at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason.
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