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Main Title:
Jane Austen, the secret radical / Helena Kelly.
Author:
Kelly, Helena, 1981-, author
Imprint:
London : Icon Books, 2024.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, GuardianAlmost 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. In her first, brilliantly original book, 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.Uncovering a radical, spirited and politically engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.
ISBN:
9781837731237 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
823.7
823.7
JA 823.7 (KEL)
LC Class:
PR4038.R33
Language:
English
Subject:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Political and social views
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Literature
Literature: history & criticism
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
History
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
European history
Gender studies: women & girls
United Kingdom, Great Britain
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BRN:
3984597
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LocationCollectionCall NumberStatus/Desc
AltonSpecial Collections - LoanJA 823.7 (KEL)
Adult Non-Fiction
  • Onloan - Due: 31 Jul 2025
Basingstoke Discovery CentreSpecial Collections - Loan823.7 Jane Austen Collection
  • Onloan - Due: 12 Jul 2025
BordonAdult Non-Fiction823.7
  • Onloan - Due: 21 Jul 2025
Chandlers FordAdult Non-Fiction823.7
  • Available
WaterloovilleAdult Non-Fiction823.7
  • Available
Winchester LibraryAdult Non-Fiction823.7
  • Available
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