| Description |
342 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
How much does age matter? -- Do sisters sleep together? -- What do the characters call each other? -- How do Jane Austen's characters look? -- Who dies in the course of her novels? -- Why is it risky to go to the seaside? -- Why is the weather important? -- Do we ever see the lower classes? -- Which important characters never speak in the novels? -- What games do characters play? -- Is there any sex in Jane Austen? -- What do characters say when the heroine is not there? -- How much money is enough? -- Why do her plots rely on blunders? -- What do characters read? -- Are ill people really to blame for their illnesses? -- What makes characters blush? -- What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? -- When does Jane Austen speak directly to the readers? -- How experimental a novelist is Jane Austen? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| ISBN |
9781408820117 hardback |
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1408820110 hardback |
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