Between Secrets and Screens: Sentiments under Scrutiny: Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen, Ang Lee - Couverture souple

Massei-Chamayou, Marie-Laure

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2130650759 ISBN 13 : 9782130650751

Editeur : EVERGREEN, 2015

Synopsis

Often regarded as dark and disenchanted in comparison with the «light and bright and sparkling» Pride and Prejudice (1813), Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibilty (1811) bas recently emerged from its shadowed position to find both intellectual and popular appeal, partly thanks to Ang Lee’s acclaimed movie adaptation based on Emma Thompson’s screenplay (1995). Drafted in the political turmoil of the 1790s when sensibility had become such an overdetermined trope that it failed to generate stable meaning, Austen’s first published novel stages a transition in her oeuvre : while its critical scrutiny of the waning cult of sensibility and parody of sentimental conventions displace an outdated style of didactic fiction, its daring representation of the patrilineal system of inheritance, closural ambiguities and nuanced narrative strategies all point to the more sophisticated achievements of the domestic realist novel. As Jane Austen boldly dramatised the economic rules and stifling secrets of her society, the plot is fraught with tensions inherent in the discrepancy between the elegant rituals of English society and the utter female powerlessness which underlies monetary pressure to marry. Similarly, even as the genre of the heritage film associates the novel with an ideal pre-industrial England, Ang Lee’s aesthetic adaptation reads Sense and Sensibility as a text of female empowerment.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou is a senior lecturer at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She is the author of La Représentation de l'argent dans les romans de Jane Austen : l'Être et l'avoir (L'Harmattan, 2012) and of several articles on Austen's fictional responses to the economic and social transformations of her time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: EVERGREEN
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: français
• ISBN 10: 2130650759
• ISBN 13: 9782130650751
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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