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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on February 5, 2008
Literary Imagination 2008 10(1):25-35; doi:10.1093/litimag/imn003
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Literature and the Turn from History

Stewart Justman*

*Director, Liberal Studies Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.

E-mail: stewart.justman@umontana.edu

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Four paragraphs into a recent economic history of the world appears the comment, "Jane Austen may have written about the refined conversations over tea served in china cups. But for the majority of the English as late as 1813 conditions were no better than for their naked ancestors of the African savannah. The Darcys were few, the poor plentiful."1 Even in the midst of a revival that has seen her novels translated to the screen one after another, the hostile view persists: Jane Austen is a monarch of the teacup. Presiding over a miniature world, she shuts out the noise and truth of things—history. Though no reader of Pride and Prejudice imagines the Darcys of England are many, it is implied that in order to see the world as it really is we will have to abandon the narrow vision of Jane Austen in favor of the boundless vision of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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