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1 online resource (203 pages) |
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text file |
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RETHINKING JANE AUSTEN'S LADY SUSAN: The Case for Her 'Failed' Epistolary Novella; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on the Editions of Austen's Works Cited in Rethinking Jane Austen's Lady Susan; Permissions; Introduction: A Different Way to Tell the Story; Part One: Learning through the Epistolary: Catharine and Lady Susan; Chapter 1: Catharine; Chapter 2: Lady Susan; Chapter 3: Improving on Catharine; Part Two: Abandoning the Epistolary: ""To the Great Detriment of the Post office Revenue""; Chapter 4: Form and Politics. |
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Chapter 5: Austen the Reader, Austen the WriterConclusions; Appendix: Critical Studies on Austen's Epistolary Writing; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This full-length study of Lady Susan refutes the long-accepted, unchallenged critical view of the novella put forward by Austen scholars that largely deems the work to be unsatisfactory and marginal. Eschewing the idea that this novella is stylistically regressive, the study argues thatLady Susan was left unfinished for political and commercial reasons. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Lady Susan.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. |
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Lady Susan (Austen, Jane) |
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Epistolary fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Epistolary fiction, English. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Owen, David. Rethinking Jane Austen?s Lady Susan : The Case for Her Failed Epistolary Novella. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773436466 |
| ISBN |
9780773429895 |
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0773429891 |
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9780773436466 (alkaline paper) |
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0773436464 (alkaline paper) |
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