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In Jane Austen’s works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid as she seems: according to legend, cunning Wiltshire residents caught hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a reputation for ignorance by claiming they were digging up a “big cheese”—the moon’s reflection on the water’s surface. It worked.
In Jane Austen’s Names, Margaret Doody offers a fascinating and comprehensive study of all the names of people and places—real and imaginary—in Austen’s fiction. Austen’s creative choice of names reveals not only her virtuosic talent for riddles and puns. Her names also pick up deep stories from English history, especially the various civil wars, and the blood-tinged differences that played out in the reign of Henry VIII, a period to which she often returns. Considering the major novels alongside unfinished works and juvenilia, Doody shows how Austen’s names signal class tensions as well as regional, ethnic, and religious differences. We gain a new understanding of Austen’s technique of creative anachronism, which plays with and against her skillfully deployed realism—in her books, the conflicts of the past swirl into the tensions of the present, transporting readers beyond the Regency.
Full of insight and surprises for even the most devoted Janeite, Jane Austen’s Names will revolutionize how we read Austen’s fiction.
- Sales Rank: #366810 in Books
- Published on: 2015-04-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.70" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 440 pages
Review
“This is rich material, and Janites will love the code-cracking. . . . [A] playful and exuberant book.” (Telegraph)
“Doody makes a convincing argument that Jane Austen (1775–1817) imbued most, if not all, of her character and place names with historical, geographical, or social significance, and provides the historical and cultural context necessary to understand the import of each of these careful naming choices. . . . A delightful, edifying read for both scholars and lay Austen fans.”
(Library Journal)
“Doody’s book is a marvellous thing. . . . The bravura set-piece literary criticisms are fresh, and valuable in themselves (Elinor Dashwood isn’t really as sensible as all that; obscured window panes are important in Persuasion), and so are the frequent, hitherto unmade links to the other novels by women that Jane Austen was reading.” (Times Literary Supplement)
“A magical mystery tour of virtually every location, and every family and individual, mentioned not only in the novels, but also in the Juvenilia and even the letters and diaries. . . . Doody writes with clarity and elegance, and arranges her material to lead the reader ever onwards into a whole world of language and meaning. . . . A comprehensive study, but never a dull one, this book is as entertaining as it is revealing, and will doubtless uncover fresh layers of meaning for even the best-read Austen fan.”
(Jane Austen’s Regency World)
“Jane Austen’s Names is a treasure chest.”
(First Things)
“No one, with the possible exception of Jane Austen herself, knows the fiction of Jane Austen and her time more intimately than Margaret Doody, and the depth and breadth of this knowledge is richly deployed here. . . . An erudite, provocative, and original book.”
(Review 19)
“To read Jane Austen’s Names is to appreciate Austen’s writings anew in the company of a peerlessly learned, delightfully opinionated scholar—an opportunity not to be missed.”
(JASNA News)
“This meticulous, expansive, and enjoyable book recreates the delight of Austen’s wordplay in detailed etymologies, anecdotes, and historical and literary references. Doody’s vast research will undoubtedly afford readers of Austen new angles on the novels’ familiar characters and significant places. There is great payoff in this book’s copious details.” (Eighteenth-Century Fiction)
“A brilliant, provocative, and important book. Doody has marshaled a truly unprecedented array of material about names, places, and plotting culled from a dazzlingly expansive reading of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels—as well as books on local history and the English countryside. The result is an illuminating and enjoyable book that teaches us to think about Austen’s artistry in a fundamentally new way.” (Claudia L. Johnson, author of Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures)
“Doody brings the insights of a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing about Austen to this book. I admire how Jane Austen’s Names brings to view the riddling and punning play that Austen indulged in her naming practices. Doody reveals an author who positively relishes the comic resonances of the names she encountered in the social world around her.” (Deidre Shauna Lynch, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History)
“This is a remarkable book—profuse, forensic, vividly imagined. To say that it enriches our experience of Austen’s fiction hardly does justice to the way Doody brings all its people and places to life through their names. In this erudite etymological adventure she excavates the deep text of Austen’s England, its embedded meanings and hidden histories.” (David Fairer, author of Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle, 1790–1798)
“Doody draws on a prodigious array of literary, geographical, historical, and linguistic information to figure out what the names of people and places in Jane Austen actually mean. With characteristic energy and curiosity, she links Austen’s riddling allusions to larger worlds, even to the movements of time itself.” (Jocelyn Harris, author of A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen’s Persuasion)
About the Author
Margaret Doody is the John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of many books, including the Aristotle Detective series, the first three of which are available from the University of Chicago Press.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The art itself is nature
By P. Salus
Prof. Doody, after a lifetime of reading novels, has produced an extraordinary exposition of the personal, family and place names of Jane Austen's oeuvre. Though I am older than Prof. Doody, and presumeably have been reading Jane and her predecessors about as long, there was much new and ever more bundled in this volume. Catherine Moreland's sometime freind Isabella Thorpe would not have found this truly horrid. Fanny Price would not have read it to Lady Bertram. But I read it with pleasure; and will (if my spouse relinquishes it) re-read parts of it. After all, there might be a relationship between Mansfield Park and Trollope's The Bertrams (1859).
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Jane Austen Unveiled.
By Valerie Nordberg
I found this book to be very different from most of the others about Jane Austen as it gave a clearer picture of the times, fashions, likes and dislikes of the period. It gives each book she wrote a deeper meaning by annotating episodes, people, place-names, names etc. with added historical background. Above all, to me it explains Jane Austen's humour, in-jokes and her opinions which I haven't read in any other book. If you are a J A fan, I recommend this highly for the insights it gives on her as a person and author and on the age she lived in.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Much More Than Just Names
By Kathleen A. Flynn
Margaret Doody is a hard-core Jane Austen nerd, and this book is amazing. An erudite romp through English history, language and literature that apparently considers no aspect of Jane Austen's works too minor to explore. I thought I knew my Jane Austen, but this book has made rethink and re-examine many aspects of character and story. Fantastic!
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