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Record Nr.

UNISA996216692503316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Jane Austen / / edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997

ISBN

0-511-99908-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to literature

Disciplina

823/.7

Soggetti

Women and literature - England - History - 19th century

Romance fiction, English - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Chronology of Jane Austen's life / Dierdre Le Faye -- Professional woman writer / Jan Fergus -- Northanger Abbey, Sense and sensibility, Pride and prejudice / Rachel M. Brownstein -- Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion / John Wiltshire -- Short fiction / Margaret Ann Doody -- Letters / Carol Houlihan Flynn -- Class / Juliet McMaster -- Money / Edward Copeland -- Religion and politics / Gary Kelly -- Style / John F. Burrows -- Jane Austen and literary traditions / Isobel Grundy -- Austen cults and cultures / Claudia L. Johnson -- Further reading / Bruce Stovel.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen leading scholars from around the world present Austen's works in two broad contexts: that of her contemporary world, and that of present-day critical discourse. Beside discussions of Austen's novels there are essays on religion, politics, class-consciousness, publishing practices, and domestic economy, which describe the world in which Austen lived and wrote. More traditional issues for literary analysis are then addressed: style in the novels, Austen's letters as literary productions, and the stylistic significance of her juvenile works. The volume concludes with assessments of the history of Austen criticism and the development of Austen as a literary cult-figure; it provides a chronology, and highlights the most interesting studies of Austen in a vast field of contemporary critical diversity.