Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions
Subtitle: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 12, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403964106
Subjects: Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Gothic & Romance; Humorous stories, English; Literary Criticism & Collections / Gothic & Romance; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Sex in literature; Criticism and interpretation; 1775-1817; Austen, Jane,; Humor
First sentence: In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia intimates that her virginity has already been lost when, on the eve of eloping with a scoundrel, she explains that "I shall send for my clothes when I get to Longbourn; but I wish you would tell Sally to mend a great slit in my worked muslin gown, before they are packed up" (291-292).1