Companion to Jane Austen Studies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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Jane Austen significantly shaped the development of the English novel, and her works continue to be read widely today. Though she is best known for her novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, she also wrote poems, letters, prayers and various pieces of juvenalia. These writings have been attracting the attention of scholars; her major works have already generated a large body of scholarly and critical studies. This reference is a guide to her works and the response to them.Austen's works are fraught with ambiguity. Because she was adept at displaying numerous aspects of an issue, her writings invite multiple interpretations. In light of the ambiguity of her texts, each of her major works is approached from a reader-response perspective, in which an expert contributor illuminates the reader's relationship to her writing. And because so many readers have had such varied responses to her novels, the volume also includes chapters summarizing the critical response to each of her major works. In addition, the book includes separate chapters on her poems, letters, and prayers.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-09-30
Mått:160 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt:664 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313306624

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LAURA COONER LAMBDIN teaches Professional Communications in the University of South Moore School of Business. She has published on Malory, Chaucer, and various Victorian poets, in such journals as Philological Quarterly and Arthurian Interpretations. With Robert T. Lambdin, she has coauthored Camelot in the Nineteenth Century (1999) and coedited Chaucer's Pilgrims (1996) and the Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (2000), all available from Greenwood Press.ROBERT THOMAS LAMBDIN is Assistant Professor of English in the College Applied Professions at the University of South Carolina. With Laura C. Lambdin, he has coauthored Camelot in the Nineteenth Century (1999) and coedited Chaucer's Pilgrims (1996) and the Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (2000), all available from Greenwood Press.

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Sense and Sensibility: A Convergence of Readers/Viewers/Browsers A Critical History of Sense and Sensibility The Oppositional Reader and Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen and Her Readers Fanny Price's "Customary" Subjectivity: Rereading the Individual in Mansfield Park The Critical History of Mansfield Park Lampoon and Lampoonability: Emma and the Riddle of Popularity "And Very Good Lists They Were": Select Critical Readings of Jane Austen's Emma Rereading Jane Austen: Dialogic Feminism in Northanger Abbey Austen's Northanger Abbey: A Bibliographic Study Persuasion's Box of Contradictions Degrees of Maturity: The Bibliographic History of Jane Austen's Persuasion The Juvenalia: Energy versus Sympathy Child's Play: A Short Publication and Critical History of Jane Austen's Juvenalia Tender Toes, Bow-wows, Meow-meows, and the Devil: Jane Austen and the Nature of Evil Lady Susan: A Bibliographical Essay On the Virtues of Stout Half-Boots, Speculation and a Little Fresh Hair Powder: A Political, yet Jovial, Reading of Jane Austen's The Watsons The Watsons: Critical Interpretations Jane Austen's Sanditon Jane Austen's Letters in the 19th Century: The Politics of Nostalgia Humor and Wit in Jane Austen's Poems and Charades Jane Austen's Prayers: Deism Becoming Theism Bibliography Index