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General Consent in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism

By Barbara K. Seeber

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780773568549
DOI
10.1515/9780773568549
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7822728 bytes)
Pages
168\171
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 20:10:21

Description

Readings of Jane Austen tend to be polarized: she is seen either as conformist - the prevalent view - or quietly subversive. In General Consent in Jane Austen Barbara Seeber overcomes this critical stalemate, arguing that general consent does not exist as a given in Austen's texts. Instead, her texts reveal the process of manufacturing consent - of achieving ideological dominance by silencing dissent. Drawing on the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Seeber interrogates academic and popular constructions of Jane Austen, opening up Austen's "unresolvable dialogues."

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