What Matters in Jane Austen? - Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

Zusatztext Fascinating ... If you love Jane Austen! you'll love this book too - it's almost as good as finding an unpublished novel Informationen zum Autor John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, his books including The Artful Dickens (Bloomsbury, 2020). He has edited Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Emma for Oxford World’s Classics. He is also a broadcaster and journalist, writing on contemporary fiction for the Guardian. He has taught Austen to university students for over three decades, and has lectured widely to lovers of her fiction in both the UK and the US. Klappentext What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? What do the characters call each other, and why? And which important Austen characters never speak? In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's novels, John Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of Austen's fiction. Inspired by an enthusiastic reader's curiosity, based on a lifetime's study and written with flair and insight, What Matters in Jane Austen? uncovers the hidden truth about an extraordinary fictional world. From 'Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?' to 'Which important Austen characters never speak?' the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden truths about Jane Austen's fictional world Zusammenfassung From 'Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?' to 'Which important Austen characters never speak?' the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden truths about Jane Austen's fictional world

Product details

• Authors: John Mullan, Mullan John
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.01.2013
• EAN: 9781408831694
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-3169-4
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, European History, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, REFERENCE / Trivia, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism