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Jane Austen and the fiction of her time /

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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Main Author: Waldron, Mary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
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.
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.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0511009828
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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