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Presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator in confrontation with contemporary popular novelists.Presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator in confrontation with contemporary popular novelists.Hide synopsis
Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time (Cambridge University Press) – Hardcover (1999)
by
Mary Waldron
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press 1999
English
204 pages
ISBN: 0521651301 ISBN-13: 9780521651301
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 ...Show moreThis 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.Hide
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999, Cambridge
Description:Used Book. pp. 194p. Without Dustjacket, book in good condition...Used Book. pp. 194p. Without Dustjacket, book in good condition with no highlighting or markings.
Description:Near Fine in J Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall x, 194 pp...Near Fine in J Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall x, 194 pp., A touch of creasing to top edge of jacket. Bookplate with writing on it on ffep. 41b.
Description:Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 6 ¾"-9¾" Tall. Signed by...Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 6 ¾"-9¾" Tall. Signed by Author This is a Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's original black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine, in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket, which has some very light creasing to head of spine. Not price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the Author on the ffep plus the book has a short note SIGNED from the Authior laid in. Clean copy internally. Firm binding with no hinge weakness and their is no leaning or rolling to spine.8vo 194pp First Edition.
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