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| Named Person: | Jane Austen |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bruce Stovel; Lynn Weinlos Gregg; Jane Austen Society of North America. |
| ISBN: | 0888643748 9780888643742 |
| OCLC Number: | 50941924 |
| Notes: | 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. |
| Description: | xxiii, 269 p. ; 23 cm. |
| 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 -- The 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 -- The idiolects of the idiots: the language and conversation of Jane Austen's less-than-savoury suitors / Jeffrey Herrle. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Bruce Stovel and Lynn Weinlos Gregg. |
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