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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9781316178591
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316178591
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Book description

Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This introduction by Janet Todd, leading scholar and editor of Austen's work, explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and reception. Each novel is discussed in detail, and the essential information is given about her life and literary influences, her novels and letters, and her impact on later literature. For this second edition, the book has been fully revised; a new chapter explores the ways in which Austen's work has prompted imitations, adaptations and creative spin-offs. Key areas of current critical focus are considered throughout, but the book's analysis remains thoroughly grounded in readings of the texts themselves. Janet Todd outlines what makes Austen's prose style so innovative and gives useful starting points for the study of the major works, with suggestions for further reading.

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‘Easy to read and engaging, this is an excellent overview of Austen's work.’

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Contents

Contents
References
Further reading
Adkins, Roy, and Lesley, Adkins. Jane Austen's England.New York: Viking Books, 2013.
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Auerbach, Nina. ‘O Brave New World: Evolution and Revolution in Persuasion’, ELH 39:1 (1972), 112–28.
Barchas, Janine. Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity.Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Byrne, Paula. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things.London: Harper Press, 2013.
Carroll, Joseph, Jonathan, Gottschall, John A., Johnson, and Daniel J., Kruger. Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Deresiewicz, William. Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets.New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Duckworth, Alistair M.The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels.Baltimore, MD and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971.
Dussinger, John A.In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World.Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
Fergus, Jan. Jane Austen: A Literary Life. Basingstoke andLondon: Macmillan, 1991.
Foster, Brandy. ‘Pimp My Austen: The Commodification and Customization of Jane Austen.’ Persuasions on-Line, Jane Austen Society of North America, 29:1 (2008).
Galperin, William H.The Historical Austen.Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2003.
Gard, Roger. Jane Austen's Novels: The Art of Clarity.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.
Gay, Penny. Jane Austen and the Theatre.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven, CT andLondon: Yale University Press, 1979.
Gilson, David, A Bibliography of Jane Austen.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982; repr. Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies/New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1997.
Harding, D. W. ‘Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen’, Scrutiny. A Quarterly Review 8:4 (1940), 346–62.
Harman, Claire. Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World.Edinburgh: Canongate, 2010.
Jenkyns, Richard. A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Johnson, Claudia L.Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Johnson, Claudia L.Jane Austen. Women, Politics and the Novel.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Jones, Hazel. Jane Austen and Marriage.London: Continuum, 2009.
Kaplan, Deborah. Jane Austen among Women. Baltimore,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Kirkham, Margaret. Jane Austen: Feminism and Fiction.Sussex: Harvester Press, 1983; repr. London: Athlone Press, 1997.
Knox-Shaw, Peter. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Lascelles, Mary. Jane Austen and her Art.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and Her Family.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Litz, A. Walton. Jane Austen: A Study of her Artistic Development.London: Chatto & Windus, 1965.
Looser, Devoney, ed. Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism.Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.
Lynch, Deidre, ed. Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees. Princeton,NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Mandal, Anthony. Jane Austen and the Popular Novel: The Determined Author.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Miller, D. A.Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
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Mudrick, Marvin. Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952.
Mullan, John. What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved.London: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Neill, Edward. The Politics of Jane Austen.London: Macmillan, 1999.
Park, You-me, and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, eds. The Postcolonial Jane Austen.London and New York: Routledge, 2000.
Pinch, Adela. Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion. Hume to Austen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Poovey, Mary. The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Raw, Laurence, and Robert G, Dryden, eds. Global Jane Austen: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community,New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Said, Edward W. ‘Jane Austen and Empire’, in Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Sales, Roger. Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England.London: Routledge, 1994.
Selwyn, David. Jane Austen and Leisure.London: Hambledon Press, 1999.
Sulloway, Alison G.Jane Austen and the Province of Womanhood.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Sutherland, Kathryn. Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Tanner, Tony. Jane Austen.Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986.
Todd, Janet, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice.Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Todd, Janet, ed. Jane Austen in Context. Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Todd, Janet, ed. Sensibility: An Introduction.London: Methuen, 1986.
Trilling, Lionel. ‘Mansfield Park’, in Jane Austen. A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Ian, Watt. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
Tuite, Clara. Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Van Sant, Ann Jessie. Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Waldron, Mary. Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Wiltshire, John. Hidden Jane Austen.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Wiltshire, John. Jane Austen and the Body: ‘The Picture of Health’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Wiltshire, John. Recreating Jane Austen.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Yaffe, Deborah. Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom.Boston: Mariner Books, 2013.

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