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This important study investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation. In a wide-ranging argument combining intellectual history and literary stylistics, Bharat Tandon explores such activities as flirtation and ventriloquism, in order to show how a form of conversational morality is what Austen's novels both describe and set out to achieve.



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'Tandon has written a magisterial work.' —'Choice Magazine'


'A book brimming with insights and many acute perceptions... Bharat Tandon outlines a refreshing redirection for Austen studies.' —'Times Literary Supplement'



Table of Contents

List of Plates and Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The Morality of Conversation; Interlude. Differential Narrative: Austen's Early Fiction; 2. Flirting; 3. Throwing the Voice; 4. Habit and Habitation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation

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      Publisher: Anthem Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2003
      ISBN13: 9781843311027, 978-1843311027
      ISBN10: 184331102X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This important study investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation. In a wide-ranging argument combining intellectual history and literary stylistics, Bharat Tandon explores such activities as flirtation and ventriloquism, in order to show how a form of conversational morality is what Austen's novels both describe and set out to achieve.



      Trade Review

      'Tandon has written a magisterial work.' —'Choice Magazine'


      'A book brimming with insights and many acute perceptions... Bharat Tandon outlines a refreshing redirection for Austen studies.' —'Times Literary Supplement'



      Table of Contents

      List of Plates and Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. The Morality of Conversation; Interlude. Differential Narrative: Austen's Early Fiction; 2. Flirting; 3. Throwing the Voice; 4. Habit and Habitation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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