Jane Austen (Writers and Their Work) - Softcover
The Guide provides detailed notes- cultural. historical, legal, literary, linguistic, social, religious, scientific and medical - on a systematic basis, to all the references in Jane Austen's later manuscript works. These include Sanditon, The Watsons, Lady Susan, Plan of a Novel, and her Prayers and Poems. The Introduction gives the history of these manuscripts in the Austen family, their publication, and the history of their criticism from the 1870's to the present day.
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Brian Southam, formerly Chairman of the Jane Austen Society, pioneered the study of the manuscript works in Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts (1964, new edn 2000). He has edited Austen's Volume the Second (1963), the facsimile edition of Sanditon (1975) and Sir Charles Grandison (1980); and revised the Oxford edition of Austen's Minor Works (1969). His latest book is Jane Austen and the Navy (2000, new edn 2005).
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- PublisherLiverpool University Press
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0582012430
- ISBN 13 9780582012431
- BindingPaperback
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There have been innumerable reinterpretations of her work but no revaluations. Brian Southam shows how different readers and critics have reacted to her work - from perceptive and appreciative review of Emma by her contemporary Sir Walter Scott, to the admiration of D. H. Lawrence, who nonetheless assessed her as 'a narrow-gutted spinster.' Mr Southam considers how Jane Austen invented her own special mode of fiction, limited and highly selective, using as her material the quiet everyday domestic life of middle-class country families in Regency England, and how behind the wit and irony lay an awareness of the problems of social existence, in particular the women's predicament in striving for self-determination and identity in a world of convention ruled by men. Brian Southam, formerly a lecturer in English at the University of London, and Editorial Director of Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd; he has written and edited books on Jane Austen, Tennyson and T. S. Eliot, and articles on many other authors, including Shakespeare, Milton, Gibbon, Keats and Yeats. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780582012431
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There have been innumerable reinterpretations of her work but no revaluations. Brian Southam shows how different readers and critics have reacted to her work - from perceptive and appreciative review of Emma by her contemporary Sir Walter Scott, to the admiration of D. H. Lawrence, who nonetheless assessed her as 'a narrow-gutted spinster.' Mr Southam considers how Jane Austen invented her own special mode of fiction, limited and highly selective, using as her material the quiet everyday domestic life of middle-class country families in Regency England, and how behind the wit and irony lay an awareness of the problems of social existence, in particular the women's predicament in striving for self-determination and identity in a world of convention ruled by men. Brian Southam, formerly a lecturer in English at the University of London, and Editorial Director of Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd; he has written and edited books on Jane Austen, Tennyson and T. S. Eliot, and articles on many other authors, including Shakespeare, Milton, Gibbon, Keats and Yeats. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780582012431
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