Jane Austen by Gooneratne
A critical introduction to Jane Austen's writings, which considers in turn her letters, the minor works and the six complete novels, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. Biographical material has been kept to a minimum. Contemporary criticism is referred to where useful, but the aim of the book is to direct new and old readers of Jane Austen to the structure and intentions of the works themselves, to the richness and subtlety of their language and to the record they provide of the writer's gradual achievement, through self-discipline and continuous experimentation, of artistic and emotional maturity. The books in the series British Authors: Introductory Critical Studies are aimed at the widest student readership and are all written by authors who have experience of university teaching outside Britain.
Born in Colombo, educated at the Universities of Ceylon and Cambridge, Emeritus Professor Yasmine Gooneratne has taught, researched and published in the fields of English and Commonwealth/PostcolonialLiterature for 35 years. On her return from Cambridge with a PhD. in English, she taught at the University of Ceylon inPeradeniya for 10 years (1962 - 1972) before accepting a senior position atMacquarie University in Australia, where she taught until her retirement from active teaching in 1999. She had been writing verse since her schooldays in Sri Lanka, and she beganwriting fiction while teaching in Australia. Her publications (both fiction and non-fiction) are listed below, with publication detailsprovided. Her work as writer and teacher has been recognized by the award of a Personal Chair in English aswell as of Macquarie University's first higher doctoral degree (D.Litt.). She has been honoured in three countries by conferment of the Orderof Australia (AO), the Samvad IndiaFoundation's Raja Rao Award, and the Sahityaratna ('Jewel of Literature') Award of Sri Lanka. Patron since 1990 of the Jane Austen Society of Australia, she is today the director of The GuardianAngels, a literary editing service, and a member of both the Australian Society of Authors and the English Writers' Cooperative of Sri Lanka. All her novels (including the first which won Australia's Marjorie Barnard Literary Prize for Fiction) have been shortlisted for international prizes, among them the CommonwealthWriters Prize and the Dublin IMPAC International Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521096300 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521096308 |
| Title | Jane Austen |
| Author | Gooneratne |
| Series | British And Irish Authors |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1970-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 204 |
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