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Those Elegant Decorums : The Concept of Propriety in Jane Austen's Novels by Jane Nardin (1973, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSTATE University of New York Press
ISBN-100873952367
ISBN-139780873952361
eBay Product ID (ePID)1112977
Product Key Features
Number of Pages178 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThose Elegant Decorums : the Concept of Propriety in Jane Austen's Novels
SubjectDrama, Political, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1973
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJane Nardin
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN73-004821
ReviewsProfessor 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.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 1. How to Read Jane Austen 2. The Concept of Propriety 3. Propriety as Duty to Society and Self: Sense and Sensibility 4. Propriety as a Test of Character: Pride and Prejudice 5. Propriety and the Education of Catherine Morland: Northanger Abbey 6. Status, Work, and Propriety in Mansfield Park 7. Egotism and Propriety in Emma 8. Propriety and the Exceptional Individual: Persuasion Notes
SynopsisAnalyzes 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., 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.
