Jane Austen : a brief life / Fiona Stafford.

By:

Stafford, Fiona J [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780300232837
0300232837

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jane Austen.DDC classification:

823/.7 23

LOC classification:

PR4036 .S73 2017eb

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Contents:

Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; contents; introduction; childhood 1775-87; early writing 1787-92; the true art of letter-writing 1793-7; bath 1798-1804; from home to home 1804-9; sense and sensibility and pride and prejudice 1809-13; mansfield park and emma 1813-15; persuasion 1816; 'winchester races' 1817; remembering jane; afterword; notes; bibliography.

Summary: Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz? In this graceful introduction to the author's life and works, Fiona Stafford offers a fresh and accessible perspective, discussing Austen's six astonishing novels in the context of their time. Newly updated, Jane Austen: A Brief Life offers a rich and sympathetic insight into a writer who was just as much the Romantic genius as Keats, Shelley or Byron - full of youthful exuberance, intensely creative once she had found her individual voice, and dead before she reached middle age.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz? In this graceful introduction to the author's life and works, Fiona Stafford offers a fresh and accessible perspective, discussing Austen's six astonishing novels in the context of their time. Newly updated, Jane Austen: A Brief Life offers a rich and sympathetic insight into a writer who was just as much the Romantic genius as Keats, Shelley or Byron - full of youthful exuberance, intensely creative once she had found her individual voice, and dead before she reached middle age.

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