Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
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Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Samuel Richardson
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Jane Austen
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ISBN: 9780733440427
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Jocelyn Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521542074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Offers a radical new thesis about Jane Austen's construction of her art and recreates substantial area of her mental and imaginative life.

Author: Sylvia Kasey Marks
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838750902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The first book-length monograph to examine Samuel Richardson's last and least-known work. Marks considers this novel a natural outgrowth and culmination of the conduct-book form -- indeed, the finest example of the genre.

Author: Jocelyn Harris
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611488435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticizethe royal heir as unfit to rule, and exposeSusan Burney’s cruel husband throughMr. Price. In Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the young Prince of Wales as the vulgar John Thorpe; in Persuasion, she attacks both the regent’s failure to retrench, and his dangerous desire to become another Sun King. For Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Austen may draw on the actress Dorothy Jordan, mistress of the pro-slavery Duke of Clarence, while her West Indian heiress in Sanditon may allude to Sara Baartman, who was exhibited in Paris and London as “The Hottentot Venus,” and adopted as a test case by the abolitionists. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this new book by Jocelyn Harris contributes significantly to the growing literature about Austen’s worldiness by presenting a highly particularized web of facts, people, texts, and issues vital to her historical moment.

Author: Robert Bage
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551112794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Robert Bage’s Hermsprong satirizes English society of the 1790s targeting, in particular, corrupt clergymen, grasping lawyers and wicked aristocrats. The protagonist, a European raised among Native Americans, visits Europe and is dismayed by what he encounters. While such satire might seem conventional enough, Hermsprong is distinguished from other political novels of the period by its comedy, and it is a measure of Bage’s success that he won the admiration of writers as different in political outlook as Mary Wollstonecraft and Sir Walter Scott. Indeed, Hermsprong is built around debate, and celebrates the pleasures of the lively exchange of ideas. This Broadview edition contains extensive primary source appendices including material by William Godwin, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre de Charlevoix, and Voltaire.

Author: Jan Fergus
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134906100X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Author: Janet M. Todd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521826440
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits and agriculture to transport. An essay on the reception of Austen's work is also included, showing how criticism of Austen has responded to literary movements and fashions. The volume emphasises the subtle interactions between Austen's life and times and her novels. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.

Author: Claire Tomalin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307426467
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her. Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer. While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events," Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village.