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A Story of Rereading(s): Reading in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
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Reading is one of the major topics that Jane Austen persistently explores throughout her literary career. In Austen’s novels, characters’ reading is rendered in parallel with their reading of life experiences, and this same parallel is repeatedly evoked to raise awareness of Austen’s readers, not only about their act of reading but also about their cultural and literary expectations. Austen, in Persuasion, takes up the topic afresh and introduces the new idea of ‘rereading’ in order to interrogate the implications of the reader’s life experience (which lies between different acts of reading) in an act of reading. Focusing on the reading process that fuses diverse standpoints, this study seeks to explain the complex ways in which Anne Elliot, the heroine of the novel, accommodates her various rereading(s) into her deep and enlarged perception of people and life. Reading Anne’s (re)reading against Sir Walter's Quixotic reading and the contemporary cultural discourse of reading at the same time, and mapping out the multiple layers of Anne's reading process by which Anne accommodates the diverse dimensions of time, space, and a variety of cultural and literary discourses, this paper argues that reading is an act of crossing-over in its overcoming of the epistemological and discursive barriers that confine the reader’s reading and life experiences. Reading through the scenes that exemplify Austen’s notion of rereading, the paper proceeds to the conclusion that Jane Austen’s writing of her novels and her telling stories of reading(s) are an act of relating herself to the larger cultural field where her representation of reading becomes a part of the cultural forces that serve to refashion the new views of reading in her time.
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Reading is one of the major topics that Jane Austen persistently explores throughout her literary career. In Austen’s novels, characters’ reading is rendered in parallel with their reading of life experiences, and this same parallel is repeatedly evoked to raise awareness of Austen’s readers, not only about their act of reading but also about their cultural and literary expectations. Austen, in Persuasion, takes up the topic afresh and introduces the new idea of ‘rereading’ in order to interrogate the implications of the reader’s life experience (which lies between different acts of reading) in an act of reading. Focusing on the reading process that fuses diverse standpoints, this study seeks to explain the complex ways in which Anne Elliot, the heroine of the novel, accommodates her various rereading(s) into her deep and enlarged perception of people and life. Reading Anne’s (re)reading against Sir Walter's Quixotic reading and the contemporary cultural discourse of reading at the same time, and mapping out the multiple layers of Anne's reading process by which Anne accommodates the diverse dimensions of time, space, and a variety of cultural and literary discourses, this paper argues that reading is an act of crossing-over in its overcoming of the epistemological and discursive barriers that confine the reader’s reading and life experiences. Reading through the scenes that exemplify Austen’s notion of rereading, the paper proceeds to the conclusion that Jane Austen’s writing of her novels and her telling stories of reading(s) are an act of relating herself to the larger cultural field where her representation of reading becomes a part of the cultural forces that serve to refashion the new views of reading in her time.
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