Jane Austen the Reader : The Artist as Critic
by
O. Murphy
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137292407
ISBN-13
9781137292407
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 22nd, 2013
Print length
231 Pages
Weight
404 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 14.50 x 1.80 cms
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Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, homage. Seeing Austen as a critic offers new insights into her creativity, and new interpretations of her novels.
How did Jane Austen come to write six novels that are still widely regarded as some of the highest achievements of the genre? The answer lies in understanding what Austen read, and how she read it. Jane Austen the Reader shows how the books Austen read - and the critical way in which she read them - influenced her writing, and her artistic innovations. Austen''s steadfast belief in the possibilities of fiction sustained her through early rejection and disappointment, and led to the creation of some of literature''s masterpieces. Austen devoured drama, history, poetry and novels, but it was not just as a passive consumer looking for entertainment, nor as a writer searching for ideas that Austen engaged with literature. Rather, she was a critical reader - investigating and evaluating literature, and articulating in her own works her vision of what the novel could be.
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