Reading Jane Austen

ISBN-13: 9781108421348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str.

Jenny Davidson

Opis

Lively and engaging account of the experience of reading Jane Austen, by leading scholar and novelist.

Recenzje

'Reading Jane Austen offers a useful guide through the intricacies of Austen's works and world for undergraduate students and meticulous Austen fans; a quick, smart, satisfying read for Austen scholars; and nuanced musings on the nature and function of novel reading for all. For that audience, Reading Jane Austen provides comprehensive historical contextualization of Austen's writing in terms of social practices and ideologies, deploying biographical information about Austen as well as analogies to our own time.' Jodi L. Wyett, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Spis treści

1. Letters; 2. Conversation; 3. Revision; 4. Manners; 5. Morals; 6. Voice; 7. Female economies.