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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “inger sigrun brodey”
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  • Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

    by Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey ...
    Do Jane Austen novels truly celebrate—or undermine—romance and happy endings?How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic, and reluctant to satisfy readers' thirst for romance? In Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Austen scholar Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey journeys through the iconic novelist's books in the first ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • An A–Z Guide to Jane Austen's World

    by Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey ...
    A beautifully illustrated guide to Jane Austen's fiction and life.An A–Z Guide to Jane Austen's World offers an inviting, richly informed companion to one of literature's most enduring authors. Organized alphabetically and beautifully illustrated throughout, internationally recognized Austen scholar Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey introduces readers to twenty-six carefully chosen terms that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ruined by Design

    Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility

    by Inger Sigrun Brodey ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship. This book argues that the rhetoric ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Jane Austen

    A Life

    by Carol Shields ...
    With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Jane Austen Education

    How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

    by William Deresiewicz ...
    An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature.In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Austen Years

    A Memoir in 5 Novels

    by Rachel Cohen ...
    A memoir chronicling the author's astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live.In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. Simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became Cohen's refuge and her ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Jane Austen For Dummies

    by Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray ...
    Explains Austen's methods, motivations, and moralsThe fun and easy way(r) to understand and enjoy Jane AustenWant to know more about Jane Austen? This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life, examines each of her novels, and looks at why her stories - of women and marriage, class and money, scandal and ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Jane Austen

    A Brief Life

    by Fiona Stafford ...
    Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After

    by Elizabeth Kantor ...
    Have you stopped believing in happily ever after?Women today are settling for less than we want when it comes to men, relationships, sex, and marriage. But we don’t have to, argues Elizabeth Kantor. Jane Austen can show us how to find the love we really want.In The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Kantor reveals how the examples of Jane Austen heroines such as Elizabeth Bennett, Elinor ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jane Austen

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tom Keymer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and was a penetrating satirist of social tensions and trends in an era ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jane Austen's Genius Guide to Life

    On Love, Friendship, and Becoming the Person God Created You to Be

    by Haley Stewart ...
    Popular Catholic podcaster Haley Stewart insists that there’s no better life coach than nineteenth-century British novelist Jane Austen.In this uniquely Catholic take, Stewart reveals Austen’s thoughtful, deeply personal exploration of human relationships—including with God—through her six novels. Stewart’s insights take you on a journey that is both literary and spiritual, revealing how Austen’s ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Jane Austen For Beginners

    by Robert Dryden ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Jane Austen's novels are classics. They have never been out of print and have continuously been turned into countless movies and TV series yet her works still remain largely misunderstood. On their surface Austen's novels all involve characters from provincial communities in rural England far removed geographically and thematically from greater social movements war industry colonization and ... Read more

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