Jane Austen: and the fiction of her time /

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. In thus identifying her literary motivation, this book offers a fresh and unifying critique of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Books and reading. > Women and literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The juvenilia, the early unfinished novels and Northanger Abbey
  • The non-heiresses: The Watsons and Pride and prejudice
  • Sense and the single girl
  • The frailties of Fanny
  • Men of sense and silly wives: the confusions of Mr. Knightley
  • Rationality and rebellion: Persuasion and the model girl
  • Sanditon: conclusion.

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