Jane Austen's Erotic Advice [electronic resource].
Raff, Sarah.
Raff sets her study in the early nineteenth century world, depicting the cultural debates and literary fandom that provided Austen a fertile playing field. She traces Austen's increasingly libidinal narrative presence (from early experiments in the narrator-reader relationship, to the seductive appeal of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and on to the outright authorial titillation of Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey), while simultaneously offering analysis of her biography that connects prose and life. She targets Austen's experience in 1814 as romantic advisor to h
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Cover ; Contents ; Preface; 1. From Quixote to Galatea; 2. Pride and Prejudice's  Vanishing Narrator; 3. Emma and the Betrayal of Fanny Knight; 4. Propositioning the Reader in Northanger Abbey; 5. "She Felt Its Application to Herself": Persuasion's  Consolations; Conclusion: The  Waning of Application; Notes; Index
Raff sets her study in the early nineteenth century world, depicting the cultural debates and literary fandom that provided Austen a fertile playing field. She traces Austen's increasingly libidinal narrative presence (from early experiments in the narrator-reader relationship, to the seductive appeal of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, and on to the outright authorial titillation of Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey), while simultaneously offering analysis of her biography that connects prose and life. She targets Austen's experience in 1814 as romantic advisor to h
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 13, 2014).
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Sex in literature
Eroticism in literature
Advice in literature
Women novelists, English
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature