What matters in Jane Austen?
Subtitle: twenty crucial puzzles solved
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781620400418
Copyright date: 2012
Table of contents: title: How much does age matter?; title: Do sisters sleep together?; title: What do the characters call each other?; title: How do Jane Austen's characters look?; title: Who dies in the course of her novels?; title: Why is it risky to go to the seaside?; title: Why is the weather important?; title: Do we ever see the lower classes?; title: Which important characters never speak in the novels?; title: What games do characters play?; title: Is there any sex in Jane Austen?; title: What do characters say when the heroine is not there?; title: How much money is enough?; title: Why do her plots rely on blunders?; title: What do characters read?; title: Are ill people really to blame for their illnesses?; title: What makes characters blush?; title: What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage?; title: When does Jane Austen speak directly to the reader?; title: How experimental a novelist is Jane Austen?