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Emma/

Offers a challenge to critics informed by new theories about the essential indeterminacy of language and hence literature. Nevertheless, post-structuralist methodologies have played an increasingly important part in studies of "Emma" during the last 20 years.

Bibliographic Details
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London : Macmillan Educ., 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction; D.Monaghan.- Comic Symmetry in Jane.- Austen's Emma; B.Stovel.- Emma and the Dangers of Individualism; A.M.Duckworth.- Emma and the Democracy of Desire; B.Marie.- Emma: Good Riddance; D.A.Miller.- Emma as Charade and the Education of the Reader; J.M.Q.Davies.- Reading Characters; Self, Society, and Text in Emma; J.Litvak Intimacy in Emma; J.Thompson.- Interrupted Friendships in Jane Austen's Emma; R.Perry.- The Self-Contained: Emma; N.Armstrong.- Georgic Comedy: The Fictive Territory of Jane Austen's Emma; P.H.Fry.- Notes on Contributors.- Bibliography.- Index.