A Preface to Jane Austen
An excellent introduction to one of the best known authors in English Literature.
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A Preface to Jane Austen
An excellent introduction to one of the best known authors in English Literature.
52.99 In Stock
A Preface to Jane Austen

A Preface to Jane Austen

by Christopher Gillie
A Preface to Jane Austen

A Preface to Jane Austen

by Christopher Gillie

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Overview

An excellent introduction to one of the best known authors in English Literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780582354814
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/05/1985
Series: Preface Books
Edition description: REV
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER GILLIE is an Arts Tutor for the Open University having for a long period served Trinity Hall, Cambridge as a lecturer in English. Among other books he has compiled the Longman Companion to English Literature and in 1983 published the volume on E M Forster for the present series.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Biographical Background 1 Character and Family Background 2 Religion 3 Mysteries and Uncertainties 4 Juvenilia Part Two: Literary Background 5 Augustan Sense and Sensibility 6 Literary Contemporaries: Isolation and Involvement 7 The Eighteenth-century Novel
8 The Arts and the Social Order 9 Women in Life and Literature Part Three: The Art of Jane Austen 10 Characterization: Heroines and Heroes 11 The Construction of the Novels 12 Emma 13 Jane Austen's Place in English Fiction Part Four: Reference Section Index
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