General Consent in Jane Austen
Subtitle: A Study of Dialogism
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780773520660
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Political and social views; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Women Authors; Austen, Jane; General; 1775-1817; Austen, Jane,; Consensus (Social sciences) in; Consensus (Social sciences) in literature; Dialogism (Literary analysis)
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.""--BOOK JACKET.