Critical Essays on Jane Austen

ISBN-13: 9781032460383 / Angielski

B. C. Southam

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First published in 1968, Critical Essays on Jane Austen shines critical and scholarly attention on one of the most widely read of the great English novelists, Jane Austen. The essays provide a varied and challenging discussion on several topics, taking account of the novelist’s limitation as well as her greatness. The peculiarity of Austen and her appeal to readers across generations is investigated at length and will be of interest to students of literature, gender studies and history.

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Acknowledgements Select Bibliography Introduction 1. The ‘Irresponsibility’ of Jane Austen 2. Jane Austen and the Stuarts 3. A View of ‘Mansfield Park’ 4. Learning Experience and Change 5. Character and Caricature in Jane Austen 6. Jane Austen and the Moralists 7. Tradition and Miss Austen 8. Jane Austen and ‘The Quite Thing’ – A Study of ‘Mansfield Park’ 9. Jane Austen’s Comedy and the Nineteenth Century 10. The Neighbouring of Tombuctoo – Conflicts in Jane Austen’s Novels Index

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B. C. Southam