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No one is indifferent to Jane Austen. A
crucial figure in the history of the novel and a powerful figure in
English literary history generally, Austen is venerated or despised
with peculiar intensity -- for being a brilliant stylist or a
provincial bore, a benign maiden aunt or a nasty old spinster, an
instrument of commonplace repression or of ironic subversion, of dull
heteronormativity or of fabulous queerness. We will test these and
other views, first by studying Austen's fiction within the context of
eighteenth-century literature, and then by considering how subsequent
generations have recreated her in fiction, essays, and film.
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