Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
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Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time by Mary Waldron
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. It is evident from letters and other sources, as well as the novels themselves, that the Austen family developed a strong scepticism about contemporary notions of the proper content and purpose of fiction. Austen's own writing can be seen as a conscious demonstration of these disagreements. In thus identifying her literary motivation, this book (moving away from the questions of ideology which have so dominated Austen studies in this century) offers a unifying critique of the novels and helps to explain their unequalled durability with the reading public.
'… her evidence is so startlingly persuasive that all students of Austen will need to read her book with care' Choice
Waldron, Mary: - MARY WALDRON is a lecturer in the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Essex.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521003889 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521003881 |
| Title | Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time |
| Author | Mary Waldron |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2001-06-14 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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