1st Edition
On Declaring Love Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen
By Fred Parker
Copyright 2019
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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"What did she say? – Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does." This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between the middle of the eighteenth century and the death of Jane Austen - and uncovers the uncertain boundaries of the self in the force-field of courtship. Declaring love is understood as the hazardous attempt to find public, social terms... Read more
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Biography
Fred Parker is a Fellow of Clare College and Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Johnson’s Shakespeare; Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson; and The Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron, and the Adversary.
