| Description |
xxiii, 269 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Papers from "The Talk in Jane Austen" conference hosted by several chapters of the Jane Austen Society of North America in Jasper, Alberta, in May 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Silent women, shrews, and bluestockings: women and speaking in Jane Austen / Jocelyn Harris -- Asking versus telling: one aspect of Jane Austen's idea of conversation / Bruce Stovel -- Why do they talk so much? How can we stand it?: John Thorpe and Miss Bates / Isobel Grundy -- Word-work, word-play, and the making of intimacy in Pride and prejudice / Kay Young -- Mrs. Elton and other verbal aggressors / Juliet McMaster -- "Hands off my man!" or Don't you wish you had one?": some subtexts of conversational combat in Jane Austen / Lesley Willis Smith -- Power of women's language and laughter / Jan Fergus -- Jane Austen's imagined communities: Talk, narration, and founding the modern state / Gary Kelly -- Mishearing, misreading, and the language of listening / Ronald Hall -- Belonging to the conversation in Persuasion / Linda Bree -- "If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more": direct dialogue and education in the proposal scenes / Sarah S.G. Frantz -- Famous last words: Elizabeth Bennet protests too much / Nora Foster Stovel -- Words not spoken: courtship and seduction in Jane Austen' novels / Elizabeth Newark -- Making room in the middle: Mary in Pride and prejudice / Steven D. Scott -- Idiolects of the idiots: the language and conversation of Jane Austen's less-than-savoury suitors / Jeffrey Herrle. |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Technique.
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Love stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Conversation in literature.
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Dialogue in literature.
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Speech in literature.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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| Added Author |
Stovel, Bruce.
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Gregg, Lynn Weinlos, 1947-
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Jane Austen Society of North America.
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| ISBN |
0888643748 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780888643742 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLC 20029112826 |
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YDXCP 1744589 |
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NZ1 7513659 |
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