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Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery, Marvin Mudrick's first book, was published in 1952, and remains a fundamental work of commentary on Austen. It is filled with idiosyncratic insights about what makes Austen's novels so daring and alive.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Marvin Mudrick’s Subversive Take on Jane Austen
- Preface by the Author
- Chapter I. The Literary Pretext: Irony versus Sentiment
- Chapter II. The Literary Pretext Continued: Irony versus Gothicism
- Chapter III. The Literary Pretext Concluded: Irony and Convention versus Feeling
- Chapter IV. Irony as Discrimination
- Chapter V. Gentility: Ironic Vision and Conventional Revision
- Chapter VI. The Triumph of Gentility
- Chapter VII. Irony as Form
- Chapter VIII. The Liberation of Feeling
- Chapter IX. The Liberation of Irony
- Appendices
- The Return of Marvin Mudrick
- About Marvin Mudrick
- About Karen Christensen
- Index