Jane Austen the Reader [electronic resource] : The Artist as Critic /
Murphy, O.author.
Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, homage. Seeing Austen as a critic offers new insights into her creativity, and new interpretations of her novels.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 'From Reading to Writing It Is But One Step': Jane Austen, Criticism and the Novel in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 2 What's Not in Austen?: Critical Quixotry in 'Love and Freindship' and Northanger Abbey; 3 Texts and Pretexts: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice; 4 'A Good Spot for Fault-Finding': Reading Criticism in Mansfield Park; 5 'Hints from Various Quarters': Emma and the 'Plan of a Novel'; 6 'Bad Morality to Conclude With': Persuasion and the Last Works
Appendix: What Happened to Jane Austen's Books?Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, homage. Seeing Austen as a critic offers new insights into her creativity, and new interpretations of her novels.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
British literature.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.
Cultural Theory.