Download or read book Jane Austen and the French Revolution written by Warren Roberts and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Jane Austin did know of the French Revolution and its effects on the European world, even though she never refers to it directly in her writing.
Download or read book More Sense Than Sensibility written by R. J. Weinkam and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MORE SENSE THAN SENSIBILITY is a diverting rendition of Jane Austen's youthful brush with the French Revolution and her friendship with Elinor and Marianne Fairwood, whose tangled romances inspire her first novel, which she is determined to begin as soon as she can. It is the summer of 1794, Jane is 18, her cousin, Eliza de Feuillide, learns her husband has died at the guillotine - betrayed by a Jean-Phillip Morel. The imposing Mr Hugh DuBray, a British agent, invites Eliza to visit Tilburn Abbey to learn more about her French affairs; Jane accompanies her, of course. Just over the hill, Elinor and Marianne Fairwood move into their Uncle's cottage. It is a comedown for them, keenly felt, but their father has recently died and left them without funds, while a distant cousin, the odious Mr Collins, inherited their entailed estate and turned them out after Elinor refused to marry him. Marianne is discovered stealing cherries by the scandalous Tot Massingale and is stung by bees while trying to escape. What good fortune it was, for he proved a kindred spirit, perfect in her eyes, at least until Pamela Just and Fleecy Stopple turn up, both claiming young Massingale had proposed marriage to win their favors and then begged off. Maryanne despairs, while Elinor suspects his antics are a ruse. Then DuBray and Massingale suddenly disappear. Jane and Eliza believe they went on a secret mission into France, but no one knows until they reappeared weeks later, shaken and exhausted. They had rescued a frightened ten-year-old French boy, Hugo-Andre Condorlet, orphaned by the murder of his mother during their escape. But he is not safe. Jane discovers dark riders creeping through the forest - Morel and his gang, they mean to take the boy back.
Download or read book Disciplining Love written by Michael Kramp and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loved by instructors for its visual and flexible way to build computer skills, the Illustrated Series is ideal for teaching Microsoft Office Excel 2010 to both computer rookies and hotshots. Each two-page spread focuses on a single skill, making information easy to follow and absorb. Large, full-color illustrations represent how the students' screen should look. Concise text introduces the basic principles of the lesson and integrates a case study for further application.
Download or read book Jane Austen the Secret Radical written by Helena Kelly and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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, Guardian 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. 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 political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.
Download or read book Jane Austen s outlandish Cousin written by Deirdre Le Faye and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza de Feuillide is best known as the spirited first cousin of Jane Austen whose colourful life and travels are recounted through her extensive correspondence with Jane, the Austen family, and other friends and relatives. Born in Calcutta in 1761, she spent an impecunious childhood in England and then France, where she married an aristocratic French Officer and lived through the Revolution, surviving her husband, who was guillotined in 1794. Many of Eliza's letters vividly illuminate the lives of Jane Austen and her family, as well as revealing the wider world against which Austen's novels are set. The letters were never intended for publication and are all the more revealing for being long before Jane became a well-known authoress. This new biography collects all the surviving letters, providing many valuable new insights into the background to Jane Austen's novels as well as being a highly entertaining social and historical record in its own right.
Download or read book Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism written by Devoney Looser and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-10-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the vision of Austen as a subversive or rebellious author has appeared most forcefully in the varied scholarship of feminist literary critics. Some feminists have fashioned an Austen more closely linked to what Juliet Mitchell has called 'The Longest Revolution' (the women's movement) than to the French Revolution; others have vehemently disagreed. Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism involves - among other things - a reassessment of these versions of Austen's relationship to feminisms. By foregrounding issues of artistic merit, genre, and history, many literary critics have effectively ignored issues of gender in their studies of Austen; feminist scholarship provided an important corrective. On the other hand, some feminist criticism, although it approached Austen's texts in innovative ways, gave short shrift to issues of history, literary genre, social context, or artistry. This volume aims implicitly and explicitly to recap second-wave feminist attention to Austen and to suggest new directions that criticism on Austen might take.
Download or read book Jane Austen Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism written by Pam Morris and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. 'Things' in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen's and Woolf's rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems.
Download or read book Festivals and the French Revolution written by Mona Ozouf and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals; Ozouf shows us that they were much more than bizarre marginalia to the revolutionary process.
Download or read book Jane Austen s Cousin written by Geri Walton and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England. When she visited their village, her appearance was electrifying. She was an attractive, accomplished French countess with a vivacious personality who inspired their imaginations and regaled them with stories of life in London and Paris where she hobnobbed with French nobility and wore the latest fashions. One of these impressionable younger cousins would find Eliza’s stories so fascinating that she would incorporate elements of Eliza’s life into some of the most famous novels in English literature. This cousin was Jane Austen. Yet Eliza’s life was not as glamorous as Jane or her Austen cousins might have thought. She faced many tragedies in her life that wealth and social class could not protect her against. She was also forced to adapt and reexamine her priorities in a way that would dramatically change her life choices and result in a more sedate lifestyle. Read about the perseverance and courage of the real person behind several fictional characters in Jane Austen’s writings and novels and the deeper connection Eliza had to the Austen family.
Download or read book Jane Austen written by Robert P. Irvine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Austen's texts, including film adaptations, from publication to the present an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Austen's life and work, situated within a broader critical history cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Jane Austen and seeking not only a guide to her works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.
Download or read book Jane Austen Game Theorist written by Michael Suk-Young Chwe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior Game theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago—over a century before its mathematical development during the Cold War. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.
Download or read book Why Jane Austen written by Rachel M. Brownstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.
Download or read book Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen written by Sarah Jane Downing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broader Regency period 1795 to 1820, stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history, unlike anything that went before it. For the first time England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became the toast of Paris, as court dress became secondary to the season-by-season flux of fashion as we know it today. Sarah Jane Downing explores the fashion revolution and the innovation that inspired a flood of fashions taking influence from far afield. It was an era of contradiction immortalised by Jane Austen, who adeptly used the new-found diversity of fashion to enliven her characters: Wickham's military splendour; Mr Darcy's understated elegance; and Miss Tilney's romantic fixation with white muslin.
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution written by François Furet and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to provoke a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume presents the research of a wide range of international scholars into those questions. 58 color illustrations, 10 halftones.
Download or read book Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution written by Rebecca L. Spang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the assignats—a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries as “circulating land”—to demonstrate that money is as much a social and political mediator as it is an economic instrument. Following the assignats from creation to abandonment, Spang shows them to be subject to the same slippages between policies and practice, intentions and outcomes, as other human inventions. “This is a quite brilliant, assertive book.” —Patrice Higonnet, Times Literary Supplement “Brilliant...What [Spang] proposes is nothing less than a new conceptualization of the revolution...She has provided historians—and not just those of France or the French Revolution—with a new set of lenses with which to view the past.” —Arthur Goldhammer, Bookforum “[Spang] views the French Revolution from rewardingly new angles by analyzing the cultural significance of money in the turbulent years of European war, domestic terror and inflation.” —Tony Barber, Financial Times
Download or read book A TALE of TWO CITIES a STORY of the FRENCH REVOLUTION with Original Illustrations written by Charles John Huffam Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen, published without an author's name in 1813 under the title Pride and Prejudice, the most popular of the author's six completed novels.The life of a peaceful English village is overwhelmed by the arrival of Charles Bingley, a young and wealthy bachelor, who comes to settle there for a while. Like her neighbours, Mrs. Bennet, a stubborn woman and Cancanière, then embarks on the hunt for the husband, hoping that one of her five daughters will be successful in marrying this excellent party. Bingley soon falls in love with Jane Bennet, the eldest, but the bourgeois origin and lack of fortune of her, allied with the maneuvers of her friend Darcy and her sisters, convince him to renounce this mésalliance and leave the region. Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Five sisters and the smartest, who refuses to be married by a man whose pride is not in accord with sentiments. Darcy will only conquer Elizabeth by proving that her love has defeated her prejudices and her fear of declassifying socially. He braved the forbidden of his aunt, the wealthy and haughty Catherine de Bourgh, and saved the Bennet family from dishonour by binding an unscrupulous officer to marry the young Lydia, whom he had abducted. Bingley and Jane are also engaged.Jane Austen is one of the prominent figures in the English psychological novel. In Pride and Prejudice, she encamps characters immersed in their provincial concerns and whose mundane life woven from neighborhood visits and balls is the main focus of interest. She also denounces the English law, which wants only a son to inherit the fortune of a family, which condemns young girls to look for a husband that is more important than he is rich than intelligent or attractive. His brilliant dialogues and his writing with ruthless irony make ridiculous characters such as the annoying Pastor Collins or Mrs. Bennet important figures of satire.Refusing the outtakes of nascent romance, Jane Austen never paints romantic scenes. She draws on the subtle analysis of social conventions and feelings the matter of a comedy of often fierce morals in which she advocates human values and reason, and ridicules stupidity and worldliness.This novel, written first in the form of a novel by letters under the title First Impressions ("First Impressions") around 1796, has long been read only in the family circle. Revamped in its form, it was an immediate success since its late release, in 1813, a success that has not been denied to the general public or to writers such as Virginia Woolf. It was adapted to the cinema in 1940 by Robert Z. Leonard.
Download or read book The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution written by Timothy Tackett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution’s lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? “By attending to the role of emotions in propelling the Terror, Tackett steers a more nuanced course than many previous historians have managed...Imagined terrors, as...Tackett very usefully reminds us, can have even more political potency than real ones.” —David A. Bell, The Atlantic “[Tackett] analyzes the mentalité of those who became ‘terrorists’ in 18th-century France...In emphasizing weakness and uncertainty instead of fanatical strength as the driving force behind the Terror...Tackett...contributes to an important realignment in the study of French history.” —Ruth Scurr, The Spectator “[A] boldly conceived and important book...This is a thought-provoking book that makes a major contribution to our understanding of terror and political intolerance, and also to the history of emotions more generally. It helps expose the complexity of a revolution that cannot be adequately understood in terms of principles alone.” —Alan Forrest, Times Literary Supplement
