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Jane Austen: Closet Classicist Kindle Edition

by Mary DeForest (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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It is a truth universally established that Jane Austen knew neither Latin nor Greek. As a literary detective, Mary Margolies DeForest disputes this. In Austen's day, classically educated women were loathed. Austen wanted readers to know that she and her best characters had a classical education--just not in her lifetime! Unlike writers who paraded their educational credentials, Austen did not send modern readers diving into footnotes to translate a chunk of Greek or Latin. Instead, she revealed a classical education subtly but profoundly. As DeForest argues, a classical education shapes Austen's characters, their language, and their stories.
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Mary Margolies DeForest (PhD, classics) lives with her husband and their imperious cat.

A child of the sixties, Dr. DeForest felt an affinity for the protest poets of ancient Rome. Refusing to praise the great men of their day, these poets found inspiration in Apollonius, a poet and scholar of Alexandria's famous Library. When DeForest was turning her dissertation on Apollonius into a book, Robert Kellogg (co-author of The Nature of Narrative ) wrote her a letter that gave her an aerial view of the refusal theme crossing the boundaries of time, space, and language. Then, as if through a telescope, Jane Austen appeared.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CJWB7M6
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 19, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3971 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 255 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1537225332
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R. Baine
5.0 out of 5 stars For dedicated Austin fans, a new approach to her writings
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This book looks at similarities between classic literature and Jane Austin’s book. For each book, she cites a classic parallel, turned into a comedy with a female at the center of the action. If you have never realized the relationship between P and P and Medea, read this book!

In the process, she supports her theory that Jane Austin was a classically educated woman.
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