Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
- Author: Mary Waldron
- Date Published: July 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521003889
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This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. It is evident from letters and other sources, as well as the novels themselves, that the Austen family developed a strong scepticism about contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction. Austen's own writing can be seen as a conscious demonstration of these disagreements. In thus identifying her literary motivation, this book (moving away from the questions of ideology which have so dominated Austen studies in this century) offers a unifying critique of the novels and helps to explain their unequalled durability with the reading public.
Read more- A fresh reading of all Austen's novels, including the juvenilia and unfinished works
- Departure from the ideology-based criticism that has dominated Austen studies enables a fresh approach and new insight into her view of contemporary fiction
- Strong market for studies of Jane Austen has been further boosted by the recent films and television adaptations
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'… her evidence is so startlingly persuasive that all students of Austen will need to read her book with care.' Choice
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- Date Published: July 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521003889
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.3kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The juvenilia, the early unfinished novels and Northanger Abbey
2. The non-heiresses: The Watsons and Pride and Prejudice
3. Sense and the single girl
4. The frailties of Fanny
5. Men of sense and silly wives - the confusions of Mr Knightley
6. Rationality and rebellion: Persuasion and the model girl
7. Sanditon - Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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