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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457732303321

Autore

Waldron Mary

Titolo

Jane Austen and the fiction of her time / / Mary Waldron [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-107-11141-2

0-511-05226-X

0-511-15009-1

0-511-00982-8

0-511-32316-6

0-511-11762-0

1-280-16202-3

0-511-48466-6

0-511-03703-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

823/.7

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Women and literature - England - History - 19th century

Romance fiction, English - History and criticism

Fiction - Technique

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. It is evident from letters and other sources, as well as the novels themselves, that the Austen family developed a strong scepticism about



contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction. Austen's own writing can be seen as a conscious demonstration of these disagreements. In thus identifying her literary motivation, this book (moving away from the questions of ideology which have so dominated Austen studies in this century) offers a unifying critique of the novels and helps to explain their unequalled durability with the reading public.