Between Self and World: The Novels of Jane Austen

by James Thompson

In this detailed historical analysis of Jane Austen's fictional representation of the individual subject, Thompson argues that Austen's notions of private experience and public performance are neither natural nor eternal, but are peculiar to her period and that these notions are best understood in Georg Lukacs's terms of the objectification of social relations under capital. In Austen's language and in her descriptive technique, we can discern a recurrent...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271006153
• ISBN13: 9780271006154
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.