Abstract: IX - Acknowledgements XI - Notes on Contributors XV - A Note on References XVII - Introduction Section One: Categories and Analysis 3 - Chapter 1 Silent Women, Shrews, and Bluestockings Women and Speaking in Jane Austen Jocelyn Harris 23 - Chapter 2 Asking Versus Telling One Aspect of Jane Austen's Idea of Conversation Bruce Stovel 41 - Chapter 3 Why Do They Talk So Much? How Can We Stand It? John Thorpe and Miss Bates Isobel Grundy 57 - Chapter 4 Word-Work, Word-Play, and hte Making of Intimacy in Pride and Prejudice Kay Young Section Two: Aggression and Power 73 - Chapter 5 Mrs. Elton and Other Verbal Aggressors Juliet McMcaster 91 - Chapter 6 Hands off my man! or Don't you wish you had one? Some Subtexts of Conversational Combat in Jane Austen Lesley Willis Smith 103 - Chapter 7 The Power of Women's Language and Laughter Jan Fergus 123 - Chapter 8 Jane Austen's Imagined Communities Talk, Narration, and Founding the Modern State Section Three: Subtexts and Ironies 141 - Chapter 9 Mishearing, Misreading, and the Language of Listening Ronald Hall 149 - Chapter 10 Belonging to the Conversation in Persuasion Linda Bree 167 - Chapter 11 If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more' Direct Dialogue and Education in the Proposal Scenes Sarah S.G. Frantz 183 - Chapter 12 Famous Last Words Elizabeth Bennet Protests Too Much Nora Foster Stovel Section Four: Speculations and Possibilities 207 - Chapter 13 Words Not Spoken Courtship and Seduction in Jane Austen's Novels Elizabeth Newark 225 - Chapter 14 Making Room in the Middle Mary in Pride and Prejudice Steven D. Scott 237 - Chapter 15 The Idiolects of the Idiots The Language and Conversation of Jane Austen's Less-Than-Savoury Suitors Jeffrey Herrle 253 - Works Cited 261 - Index
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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