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Jane Austen Book ClubTuesday, November 19, 2024 - 6:15pm to 7:15pm
If you would like to participate in the book club, please RSVP to [email protected] so we know how many people to expect.
For everyone's enjoyment and to facilitate the best possible discussion, we also ask that all participants have read the book entirely.
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Book Club will meet at our E. Shaver, Starland location at 1921 Bull Street
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Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics by Tom Keymer
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in Pride and Prejudice , it deftly introduces the novel's core themes of marriage, money, and social convention, themes that continue to resonate with readers over 200 years later.
Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of unpublished works. Her books pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and, despite some accusations of a blinkered domestic and romantic focus, they represent the world of their characters with unsparing clarity. Here, Tom Keymer explores the major themes throughout Austen's novels, setting them in the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which they emerge, and showing how they engage with social tensions in an era dominated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The Jane Austen who emerges is a writer shaped by the literary experiments and socio-political debates of her time, increasingly drawn to a fundamentally conservative vision of social harmony, yet forever complicating this vision through her disruptive ironies and satirical energy.
Purchase the book in our shop or online: https://www.eshaverbooks.com/book/9780198861904
*With online check out: be sure to note that you are participating in the book club!
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1921 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401-8031, United States
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