Jane Austen and the fiction of her time /

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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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Waldron, Mary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Criticism and interpretation.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Books and reading.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Contemporaries.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Aesthetics.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Critique et interprétation.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Livres et lecture.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Contemporains.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Esthétique.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817
Austen, Jane, > (1775-1817) > Contemporains.
Austen, Jane, > (1775-1817) > Livres et lecture.
1700-1899
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.
Fiction > Technique.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Roman > Technique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aesthetics
Books and reading
Contemporaries
Fiction > Technique
Women and literature
Beïnvloeding.
Tijdgenoten.
Romans.
Engels.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre (GB) > 19e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
England
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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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