Jane Austen
Writing, Society, Politics
(Sprache: Englisch)
Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines critical...
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Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines critical introductions to each of her six major novels with an exploration of key themes of her work.
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Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines critical introductions to each of her six major novels with an exploration of key themes of her work.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Jane Austen “
- Note on editions
- Introduction
- 1: Jane Austen practising
- 2: The terrors of Northanger Abbey
- 3: Sense, sensibility, society
- 4: The voices of Pride and Prejudice
- 5: The silence at Mansfield Park
- 6: Emma and Englishness
- 7: Passion and Persuasion
- Afterword
- Timeline
- References
- Further reading
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Tom Keymer
Tom Keymer is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman University Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous books about Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic-period literature and culture, including Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820 (OUP, 2019), Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel (OUP, 2002), and, as editor, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 1: Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750 (OUP, 2017). He has also edited works by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, and others in the Oxford World's Classics series. He is General Editor of the Review of English Studies and co-General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tom Keymer
- 2020, 192 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13,1 x 18 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198861907
- ISBN-13: 9780198861904
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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