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Some Words of Jane Austen Kindle Edition

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Jane Austen’s readers continue to find delight in the justness of her moral and psychological discriminations. But for most readers, her values have been a phenomenon more felt than fully apprehended. In this book, Stuart M. Tave identifies and explains a number of the central concepts across Austen’s novels—examining how words like “odd,” “exertion,” and, of course, “sensibility,” hold the key to understanding the Regency author’s language of moral values. Tracing the force and function of these words from Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion, Tave invites us to consider the peculiar and subtle ways in which word choice informs the conduct, moral standing, and self-awareness of Austen’s remarkable characters.

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“Wise and important. . . . Looking again at what [Tave] modestly calls ‘some words of Jane Austen’ produces findings of sterling value.” -- Andrew Wright ― Yearbook of English Studies

“Tave’s book is one critical study of her novels which Jane Austen could have read with nothing but pleasure, so accurately and subtly does he probe the profound meaning of her art. Tave’s work is, very probably, the best interpretation of Austen’s meaning ever written; certainly it will be, henceforth, the achievement against which all other such inquiries will have to be measured. . . . The old is made fresh, and the new, familiar, as Tave continually produces, by virtue of his masterful grasp of the Austen canon, new ore from what one might have supposed to be exhausted veins.” -- Walter E. Anderson ―
Nineteenth-Century Fiction

About the Author

Stuart M. Tave is the William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07P1H1V6W
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of Chicago Press; First edition (April 30, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 30, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.2 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024
    Tave's work attends with care to the extraordinary care with which Austen writes. Becoming more fully aware of her precision increases one's understanding of what she shows of human excellence and of human failing. Tave's is a work of love. Bravo!
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2012
    To all Janeites:
    After you've read all of Austen's 6 novels at least once, get this book! It opens your eyes, makes you smile, nod your head, cry, and contemplate. A sweet rich desert served after a lavish six course meal. Too bad this book is out of print.
    -Ed
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2014
    My favorite literary analysis of Jane Austen's work.
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