Jane Austen's Textual Lives
Subtitle: From Aeschylus to Bollywood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 10, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780199258727
First sentence: The publication in 1870 of James Edward Austen-Leigh's biographical Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen has long been recognized as altering her fortunes for ever-from a relatively select coterie writer, a critic's and a novelist's novelist, to a widely esteemed cultural asset, everybody's quintessential English novelist.