ENGL 1191.101: Jane Austen Made Me Do It (Fall 2024): Find Background

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Covers "the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. Major scholars address Austen's six novels, the letters and other works, in terms accessible to students and the many general readers, as well as to academics.

Provides essential information about Austen's life and literary influences, her novels and letters, and her impact on later literature and culture is covered. While the book considers the key areas of current critical focus its analysis remains thoroughly grounded in readings of the texts themselves. Gives useful starting points for the study of the major works, with suggestions for further reading.

Provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

Explores key themes and topics in Austen's novel money, land, characters and style, as well as the history of the book's composition and first publication, its critical reception, adaptations, and cult of the novel.

Explores the major themes of Austen criticism through close analysis of her major and minor works, with particular emphasis on the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which the novels emerge.

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