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Author: Jocelyn Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-08-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521542074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a radical new thesis about Jane Austen's construction of her art and recreates substantial area of her mental and imaginative life.
Author: Jocelyn Harris
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 271
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1438113153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents essays and commentary from Jane Austen's peers about her personal life, career, and individual works.
Author: Ian Littlewood
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781873403297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Natasha Duquette
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-12-04
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1611461383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts; Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen’s understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy, and her role as artist. Together, they explore Austen’s connections with Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame de Staël, Joanna Baillie, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, and other writers engaged in debates on the sensuous experience and the intellectual judgment of art. Our contributors look at Austen’s engagement with diverse art forms, painting, ballet, drama, poetry, and music, investigating our topic within historically grounded and theoretically nuanced essays. They represent Austen as a writer-thinker reflecting on the nature and practice of artistic creation and considering the social, moral, psychological, and theological functions of art in her fiction. We suggest that Austen knew, modified, and transformed the dominant aesthetic discourses of her era, at times ironically, to her own artistic ends. As a result, a new, and compelling image of Austen emerges, a “portrait of a lady artist” confidently promoting her own distinctly post-enlightenment aesthetic system.
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-03-02
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0253051940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDedicated fans of Jane Austen's novels will delight in accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms, chapels, and battlefields of the time in which Austen lived and wrote. In this exceedingly readable and sweeping scan of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, Black provides a historical context for a deeper appreciation of classic novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. While Austen's novels bring to life complex characters living in intimate surroundings, England in the Age of Austen provides a fuller account of what the village, the church, and the family home would really have been like. In addition to seeing how Austen's own reading helped her craft complex characters like Emma, Black also explores how recurring figures in the novels, such as George III or Fanny Burney, provide a focus for a historical discussion of the fiction in which they appear. Jane Austen's world was the source of her works and the basis of her readership, and understanding that world gives fans new insights into the multifaceted narratives she created.
Author: Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0195175301
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Author: Thomas Keymer
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 0198861907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines critical introductions to each of her six major novels with an exploration of key themes of her work.
Author: Edward Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1139826212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Companion offers clear, accessible coverage of the intricacies of Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. Major scholars address Austen's six novels, the letters and other works, in terms accessible to students and the many general readers, as well as to academics. With seven new essays, the Companion now covers topics that have become central to recent Austen studies, for example, gender, sociability, economics, and the increasing number of screen adaptations of the novels.
Author: Laura Mooneyham White
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1317111370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, Laura Mooneyham White suggests that engaging with Austen's world in all its strangeness and remoteness reveals the novelist's intensely different presumptions about the cosmos and human nature. While Austen's readers often project postmodern and secular perspectives onto an Austen who reflects their own times and values, White argues that viewing Austen's Anglicanism through the lens of primary sources of the period, including the complex history of the Georgian church to which Austen was intimately connected all her life, provides a context for understanding the central conflict between Austen's malicious wit and her family's testimony to her Christian piety and kindness. White draws connections between Austen's experiences with the clergy, liturgy, doctrine, and religious readings and their fictional parallels in the novels; shows how orthodox Anglican concepts such as natural law and the Great Chain of Being resonate in Austen's work; and explores Austen's awareness of the moral problems of authorship relative to God as Creator. She concludes by surveying the ontological and moral gulf between the worldview of Emma and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, arguing that the evangelical earnestness of Austen's day had become a figure of mockery by the late nineteenth century.
