| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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 the novels. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Books and reading.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Contemporaries.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Aesthetics.
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Beïnvloeding.
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Tijdgenoten.
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Romans.
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Engels.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waldron, Mary. Jane Austen and the fiction of her time. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521651301 (DLC) 98041681 (OCoLC)39727680 |
| ISBN |
0511009828 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511009822 (electronic bk.) |
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0511037031 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Reader) |
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9780511037030 (electronic bk. ;) (Adobe Reader) |
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0511117620 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511117626 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511484667 (electronic bk.) |
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0511484666 (electronic bk.) |
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