Jane Austen and the War of Ideas

Zusatztext 'Readers of Jane Austen will welcome the return of Marilyn Butler's learned and controversial book on Jane Austen, reprinted with a new and extensive survey of recent scholarship. ... this book will be a valuable addition to a scholar's library. Butler's thesis casts light on Austen's fiction and her style emulates Austen'sw crisp clarity. ... Butler writes informatively about her subject, rather than about the need for the method. 'Eighteenth Century Fiction Klappentext It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside remained isolated from the great events of her time. But as Marilyn Butler points out in Jane Austen and the War of Ideas! Austen was not isolated from reading novels! and novels carried controversy. The sentimental novel of the previous generation! the Jacobin novel of William Godwin! the philosophical comedy of Robert Bage and Maria Edgeworth--all conveyed their own kind of ideological meaning. By recognizing Austen's relationship to the literature of ideas! Butler offers acute readings of each of the novels and an intellectual context in which to see them as a whole. Zusammenfassung In this book, Professor Butler examines the very different schools of writing about Austen, and finds in them some unexpected continuities, such as a willingness to recruit her to modern aims, but a reluctance to engage with her own history.

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Bulter, Marilyn Butler, Marilyn (King Edward VII Professor of Engl Butler, Butler Marilyn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.1988
• EAN: 9780198129684
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812968-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form