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As its title suggests, this study proposes to be experimental in method as well as exhaustive of its subject. It aims at a unified and full reading of a novel, and proposes Jane Austen's Mansfield Park as example. The method, having nothing new in its elements, is to apply a variety of critical approaches instead of choosing one or another of them, for applied in isolation they have led to misunderstandings of the novel. By widening the range of points...
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This Critical Insights volume on Pride and Prejudice is designed to provide students and nonspecialists in Austen studies an introduction to one of the most widely read novels of the past two centuries. New essays include a biography of Jane Austen, the critical reception of Pride and Prejudice, an examination of the novel's historical milieu, and a reading of the novel that stresses the importance Austen places on female education as a means of redefining...
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For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans or as much devotion. So why are we so fascinated with her novels? What is it about her prose the has made Jane Austen so universally beloved? In essays culled from the last 100 years of criticism...
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"To praise Jane Austen's novels only as stylistic masterpieces is to strip them of the historical, cultural, and literary contexts that might otherwise illuminate them. By focusing primarily on the political, historical, satiric, actively intertextual, and deeply sexualized text of Persuasion, the author seeks to reconcile the so-called insignificance of her content with her high canonical status, for Austen's interactions with real and imagined worlds...
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"In this new biography, leading scholar Fiona Stafford offers a fresh perspective on Jane Austen's life and work, discussing her classic works in the context of the world in which they were published, and offering an informative and enjoyable insight into the life of Austen as both a woman and a writer."--Jacket.
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"Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride and Prejudice again and again? Why do we delight in Emma's mischievous schemes? Why do we care that Anne Elliot of Persuasion suffers? We care because it is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their stories--the human brain is a social brain. And Austen's characters are so believable, that for many of us, they are not just imaginary beings, but friends whom we know...
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