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03849aam a2200493 i 4500 001 6AE174D655EF11E58B7A61D1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150908010358 008 140924s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014033394 020 $a 1137496010 020 $a 9781137496010 035 $a (OCoLC)890621902 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d CDX $d IUL $d COO $d STF $d YUS $d PUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR4037 $b .T485 2015 082 00 $a 823/.7 $2 23 084 $a SOC026000 $a LIT004120 $a LIT004290 $a SOC026000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Thompson, James, $d 1951- $e author. 245 10 $a Jane Austen and modernization : $b sociological readings / $c James Thompson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a x, 211 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index. 505 0 $a One. Introduction: Jane Austen and Modernization -- Two. Authority in Mansfield Park and Persuasion: Durkheim, Weber, and Parsons -- Three. Emma, Simmel, and Sociability -- Four. Pride and Prejudice, Goffman, and Strategic Interaction -- Five. Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Frame Analysis -- Six. Conclusion: History, Sociology, and Literature. 520 $a "This study draws on the classic sociological work of Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, and Goffman to explore small group interaction in the six novels of Jane Austen. These early sociologists share with Austen the same object of knowledge, and that is sociation, small group interaction, and the self / society dialectic. All five are concerned with the problem of belonging, that is, social cohesion. Austen returns again and again to the contradictions of individual will and social obligation. It is now clear that Austen became the important writer that she is today during the years that sociology was establishing itself as the discipline to understand a new social formation, the result of urbanization, industrialization, secularization, massification--an recognizable society. Writers across the later nineteenth century wrote as if everything around them was changing, such that they no longer recognized the social formation in which they lived. Durkheim's key concept, anomie, that sense of individual rulelessness, embodies the observation that late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century society was becoming increasingly unglued. Hence the search, for that glue, for some understanding of shared ritual that would bind separate individuals into a coherent whole. Austen's novels, I argue, became so valuable across this period precisely because they served at one and the same time as recognition of the phenomenon of anomie and as a remedy for it. "-- Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775-1817 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Sociology in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z England $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775-1817. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032929 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Sociology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123934 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 648 7 $a 1800 - 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171222055722.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826110245.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6AE174D655EF11E58B7A61D1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search