Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser Book cover type:Signed Hardcover the novel challenged the social

the novel challenged the social and sexual taboos of its time and was immediately banned as obscene

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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser Book cover type:Signed Hardcover the novel challenged the socialIncisive, funny, and deeply researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser. Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last in Wild for Austen. These, and many other events and characters, come to life throughout this rollicking book. Austen, we learn, was far wilder in her time