Jane Austen and the fiction of her time
By: Mary Waldron.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Books and reading.; Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Contemporaries.; Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Aesthetics.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Fiction -- Technique.
Description: "This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originallly published in 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.