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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      September 2006
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      9780511607325
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511607325
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      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
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      Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This innovative introduction by a leading scholar and editor of her work explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and reception. Each novel is discussed in detail, and all the essential information about her 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. 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. This book is an essential purchase for all students of Austen, as well as for readers wanting to deepen their appreciation of the novels.

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    '… Janet Todd provides a helpful introduction to Austen's life and times, and the literary context in which she wrote …'

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Further reading
    Further reading
    Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford University Press, 1987.
    Auerbach, Nina. ‘O Brave New World: Evolution and Revolution in Persuasion’, ELH 39:1 (1972), 112–28.
    Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
    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 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 and London: Macmillan, 1991.
    Galperin, William H.The Historical Austen. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2003.
    Gard, Roger. Jane Austen's Novels: The Art of Clarity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
    Gay, Penny. Jane Austen and the Theatre. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan. The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979.
    Gilson, David, A Bibliography of Jane Austen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982, repr. St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester and Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE, 1997.
    Harding, D. W. ‘Regulated Hatred: an Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen’, Scrutiny. A Quarterly Review 8:4 (1940), 346–62.
    Jenkyns, Richard. A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen. Oxford University Press, 2004.
    Johnson, Claudia L.Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
    Jane Austen. Women, Politics and the Novel. Chicago University Press, 1988.
    Kaplan, Deborah. Jane Austen among Women. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 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 University Press, 2004.
    Lascelles, Mary. Jane Austen and her Art. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939.
    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 University Press, 2000.
    Miller, D. A.Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style. Princeton University Press, 2003.
    Mooneyham, Laura G.Romance, Language and Education in Jane Austen's Novels, New York: St Martin's Press, 1988.
    Mudrick, Marvin. Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery. Princeton University Press, 1952.
    Neill, Edward. The Politics of Jane Austen. London: Macmillan, 1999.
    Park, You-me and Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari, eds. The Postcolonial Jane Austen. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.
    Pinch, Adela. Strange Fits of Passion. Epistemologies of Emotion. Hume to Austen. 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. University of Chicago Press, 1984.
    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.
    Tanner, Tony. Jane Austen. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1986.
    Todd, Janet. Sensibility: An Introduction. London: Methuen, 1986.
    Todd, Janet. Jane Austen in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
    Trilling, Lionel. ‘Mansfield Park’ in Jane Austen. A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Watt, Ian. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
    Tuite, Clara. Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    Sant, Ann Jessie. Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel. The Senses in Social Context. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
    Waldron, Mary. Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    Wiltshire, John. Jane Austen and the Body: ‘The Picture of Health’, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    Recreating Jane Austen. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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