Jane Austen and the fiction of her time

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waldron, Mary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition:1st pbk. ed.
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.
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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