Howard Jacobson’s Live a Little: The Jewish Jane Austen’s 21st Century Novel of Manners

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Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/144297" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/144297</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2021-1-7" target="_blank" >10.5817/BSE2021-1-7</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Howard Jacobson’s Live a Little: The Jewish Jane Austen’s 21st Century Novel of Manners
Original language description
As the British Jewish novelist Howard Jacobson has called himself the "Jewish Jane Austen," this essay aims to examine the relevance of this characterization by arguing that Jacobson may be seen as continuing in the tradition of the English novel of manners, as exemplified by Austen. In particular, the plot of Jacobson's sixteenth novel Live a Little (2019) resembles Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813), as it features a development of a romantic relationship between two characters who first show little interest in each other. However, as Jacobson's couple of protagonists are in their nineties, another text that provides a useful frame of reference is Austen's last novel Persuasion (1818), which deals with the themes of aging and the passage of time. In turn, this essay approaches Live a Little as a novel of manners reminiscent of Austen, but updated for the early 21st century.
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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