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050  4 $a PR4038.H5 $b B37 2013
100 1  $a Barchas, Janine.
245 10 $a Matters of fact in Jane Austen : $b history, location, and celebrity / $c Janine Barchas.
250    $a Johns Hopkins paperback edition, 2013.
264  1 $a Baltimore : $b The Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2013, ©2012.
300    $a xiii, 317 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (259-307) and index.
505 00 $g Afterword: $t Jane Austen's fictive network. $t "Quite unconnected" : the Wentworths and Lady Susan -- $t Mapping Northanger Abbey to find "Old Allen" of Prior Park -- $t Touring Farleigh Hungerford Castle and remembering Miss Tilney-Long -- $g "The $t celebrated Mr. Evelyn" of the Sylva in Burney and Austen -- $t Hell-fire Jane : Dashwood celebrity and Sense and sensibility -- $t Persuasion's battle of the books : Baronetage versus Navy list -- $g Afterword: $t Jane Austen's fictive network.
520    $a In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchas makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen's novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. Barchas is the first scholar to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austen's fiction by taking full advantage of the explosion of archival materials now available online. According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tension between truth and invention that characterizes the realist novel. Of course, the argument that Austen deployed famous names presupposes an active celebrity culture during the Regency, a phenomenon recently accepted by scholars. The names Austen plucks from history for her protagonists (Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam, and many more) were immensely famous in her day. She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent. Barchas re-situates Austen's work closer to the historical novels of her contemporary Sir Walter Scott and away from the domestic and biographical perspectives that until recently have dominated Austen studies. This forward-thinking and revealing investigation offers scholars and ardent fans of Jane Austen a wealth of historical facts, while shedding an interpretive light on a new aspect of the beloved writer's work.
600 10 $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775-1817 $x History. $x History.
600 10 $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775-1817 $x Geography. $x Geography.
600 10 $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775-1817 $x Genealogy. $x Genealogy.
600 10 $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775-1817 $x Family.
650  0 $a Setting (Literature)
650  0 $a Names in literature.
651  0 $a England $x In literature.
650  0 $a Literature and history $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century.
650  0 $a Literature and society $z England $x History $y 19th century.
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