![]() ![]() In wartime, in a totalitarian regime, and in a culture that took the written word far more seriously than we do, she could have expected to find them. Jane talks in one letter about wanting readers who have “a great deal of ingenuity,” who will read her carefully. Reading Jane Austen as she would have preferred ![]() ![]() Reprinted by permission with Vintage Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. The following is excerpted from Jane Austen, the Secret Radical © 2016 by Helena Kelly. Kelly shows us that Austen was fully aware of what was going on in the world during the turbulent times she lived in, and sure of what she thought of it.Ībove all, Austen understood that the novel - until then dismissed as mindless and frivolous - could be a meaningful art form, one that in her hands reached unprecedented heights of greatness. Kelly illuminates the radical views - on such subjects as slavery, poverty, feminism, marriage, and the church - that Austen deftly and carefully explored in her six novels, at a time when open criticism was considered treason. In Jane Austen, the Secret Radical, author Helena Kelly looks past the grand houses, drawing room dramas, and witty dialogue that have long been the hallmarks of Jane Austen‘s work to bring to light the serious, ambitious, subversive concerns of this beloved writer. ![]()
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