Jane Austen and the fiction of her time / Mary Waldron.

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Waldron, Mary

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511009828
9780511009822
0511037031
9780511037030
0511150091
9780511150098
0511117620
9780511117626
9780521651301
0521651301
0521003881
9780521003889
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9781107111417
0511323166
9780511323164
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9781280162022

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jane Austen and the fiction of her time.DDC classification:

823/.7 21

LOC classification:

PR4037 .W29 1999eb

Other classification:

18.05

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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.

Summary: 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 the novels.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index.

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 the novels.