Jane Austen's literary manuscripts
Subtitle: a study of the novelist's development through the surviving papers
By: by B.C. Southam.
Edition: New ed., Rev. ed.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism, Textual.; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Manuscripts.; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Technique.; Fiction -- Technique.
Description: "Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts remains the definitive account of the novelist's surviving papers. These date from 1787 to 1817, from the first beginnings to the very end of her writing career. Their evidence considerably deepens our understanding of the imaginative process that stands behind the composition of the great novels. In Sanditon, the last work, we see the promise of a further and startling development in her art. The influence of her childhood reading and home life is considered in the first chapter, and a further new chapter examines Sir Charles Grandison, a work newly attributed to Jane Austen by Brian Southam in 1977. In an appendix, Brian Southam discusses Mrs Leavis's theory concerning the relationship between Jane Austen's life and art, and between the juvenilia and the later novels."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-[xv]) and index.