Jane Austen

by Irvine, Robert P.

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Title Statements

Full title :Jane Austen / Robert P. Irvine.

Summary

"Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England." "This guide to Austen's work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Austen's texts, including film adaptations, from publication to the present; an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Austen's life and work, situated within a broader critical history; cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism; and suggestions for further reading." "Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Jane Austen and seeking not only a guide to her works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them."--Jacket

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 190 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0415314348, 9780415314343, 0415314356, 9780415314350
oclc:on1058007219
LC Classification:PR4037 .I785 2005
Dewey Decimal:823/.7

PART I LIFE AND CONTEXTS -- Austen's Life -- Austen's England: hierarchy, modernity, and gender -- Austen's Profession: writing, publicity, and the market -- Austen in Literary History 1: the novel and criticism -- Political Economy, Sentiment, and Marriage -- Female Education -- Austen in Literary History 2: Romanticism -- The Effects of the French Revolution and the War with France -- Politics and the Novel after 1814 -- PART II WORKS -- Introduction -- Northanger Abbey -- Sense and Sensibility -- Pride and Prejudice -- Mansfield Park -- Emma -- Persuasion -- PART III CRITICISM -- Style, Plot, and Morality -- The origins of academic criticism of Austen -- Morality -- Irony, point-of-view, and free indirect discourse -- Narrative form: education and the marriage plot -- Morality again -- Queer Austen, the body, and psychoanalytic criticism -- Austen and Society -- A problem -- Austen as Burkean conservative -- Austen, political economy and Marxist criticism -- Austen and Feminism -- Austen, Empire, and Nationality Slavery in Mansfield Park -- Critiques of postcolonial readings of Austen -- Domesticity and empire -- Austen and English nationalism -- PART IV AUSTEN ON SCREEN -- Ada…

Subjects

1800 - 1899 Austen, Jane Criticism, interpretation, etc England Femmes et littérature -- Histoire -- 19… History LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Middle class in literature Romance fiction, English Romance fiction, English -- History and… Women and literature Women and literature -- History -- 19th…