Which important austen characters never speak? is there any sex in austen? what do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction.
What matters in jane austen? illuminates the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and daring as a novelist. It uses telling passages from austen's letters and details from her own life to explain episodes in her novels: readers will find out, how much money she had to live on, for example, what novels she read, and what she saw at the theater.
Written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Jane Austen? will allow readers to appreciate Jane Austen's work in greater depth than ever before.
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
The author reveals just how in the novels we find the real Jane Austen: a clever, clear-sighted woman "of information, " fully aware of what was going on in the world and sure about what she thought of it. We see a writer who understood that the novel--until then seen as mindless "trash"--could be a great art form and who, perhaps more than any other writer up to that time, imbued it with its particular greatness.
. A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was.
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. In places like steventon parsonage, chawton house and a small rented house in Winchester, Godmersham Park, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a 'life without incident'.
Illustrated with two sections of color plates, lucy worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world’s favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home. Darcy. She shows readers a passionate jane austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but--in the end--a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr.
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The Making of Jane Austen
Drawing from unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes of that work reverberate in our explanations of Austen’s literary and cultural power. Just how did jane austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser’s The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen’s early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know.
Here are the austen influencers, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, bigamy, and an attempted matricide. Through them, looser describes the factors and influences that radically altered Austen’s evolving image.
The author of the first jane austen dissertation, student George Pellew, but he was believed by many, including his professor-mentor, tragically died young, to have come back from the dead. Looser shows how these figures and their Austen-inspired work transformed Austen’s reputation, just as she profoundly shaped theirs.
Whether you’re a devoted janeite or simply jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.
Jane Austen's England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, often shocking, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, but always entertaining.
An authoritative account of everyday life in regency england, the backdrop of austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History March 2018 Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love.
Jane austen’s england explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley.
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
In the real jane austen, acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist. Just as letters and tokens in jane austen’s novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things – a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature – that held significance in Austen’s personal and creative life.
Byrne transports us to different worlds, and to different events, from the East Indies to revolutionary Paris, from a high society scandal to a case of petty shoplifting.
Jane Austen: A Life
While most austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events, " Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of austen's ill-fated love for a young irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village.
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
A “delightful reader’s companion” the new york times to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, and more, Trollope, the Brontës, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, ” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource.
An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting, ” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.
The Annotated Sense and Sensibility
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The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England
. Long before pride and prejudice and Zombies, Quirk published this guide to life in Regency England to the delight of Austen fans everywhere.
The Annotated Persuasion
From the editor of the popular annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion that makes the beloved novel an even more satisfying and fulfilling read.