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Informationen zum Autor Clara Tuite is a Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is an associate editor of The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832 (1999). She has published articles on Gothic literature in Eighteenth-Century Life and Romanticism on the Net. Klappentext A full-length scholarly monograph examining Jane Austen's writings within the traditions of Romanticism. Zusammenfassung Tuite's study presents a series of historically contextualized readings of Austen's writing! including juvenilia! Sense and Sensibility! Mansfield Park and Austen's posthumously published novel! Sanditon! to examine ways in which Romantic-period definitions of nation! culture and literature continue to function in contemporary readings of Austen and her period. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on texts used; Introduction. The 'fall into a quotation': tracking the canonical, Romantic and post-Romantic Austen; 1. Aunt Jane's 'early workings' and 'betweenities': closet dramas of literary apprenticeship; 2. Sensibility, free indirect style and the Romantic technology of discretion; 3. Breeding heritage culture: Mansfield Park, Reflections on the Revolution in France and the glorious revolutions of the country house; 4. Austen's Romantic fragment: Sanditon and the sexual politics of land speculation; Epilogue; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
