| Description |
viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Modern critical views
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Modern critical views.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 225-232. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
A collection of critical essays on Austen and her works. Also includes a chronology of events in her life. |
| Contents |
Chance and the hierarchy of marriages in Pride and prejudice / Joel Weinsheimer -- "A pair of fine eyes" : Jane Austen's treatment of sex / Alice Chandler -- Sense and sensibility, or growing up dichotomous / Ruth apRoberts -- Anne Elliot's dowry : reflections on the ending of Persuasion / Gene W. Ruoff -- Shut up in prose : gender and genre in Austen's juvenilia / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- Civilization and the contentment of Emma / Julia Prewitt Brown -- Guessing for ourselves in Northanger Abbey / Susan Morgan -- Reading aloud in Mansfield Park / Gary Kelly-- Persuasion in Persuasion / Ann Molan -- Austen : manners and morals / Martin Price -- Austen's ambiguous conclusions / Robin Grove. |
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Jane Austen and the traditions of comic aggression / Ian Watt -- Achieving authority : Jane Austen's first published novel / Deborah Kaplan. |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0877546827 alkaline paper $24.50 |
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