Reading Jane Austen

Lively and engaging account of the experience of reading Jane Austen, by leading scholar and novelist.

List of contents

1. Letters; 2. Conversation; 3. Revision; 4. Manners; 5. Morals; 6. Voice; 7. Female economies.

About the author

Jenny Davidson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. Professor Davidson's previously published works include Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen (Cambridge, 2004), Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century (2009), and Reading Style: A Life in Sentences (2014). She is the author of four novels, Heredity (2003), The Explosionist (2008), Invisible Things (2010), and The Magic Circle (2013).

Summary

An original and highly engaging account of one of the most influential writers in the history of English literature, by novelist and leading academic Jenny Davidson. Looking at Austen's novels through a writer's lens the book considers how Jane Austen's fiction works and why it matters.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Davidson, Jenny (Columbia University Davidson, Davidson Jenny
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781108431835
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43183-5
• Series: Reading Writers and Their Work; Reading Writers and their Work
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Englisch, Irland, Grossbritannien, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, britisch, Britannien, Brite, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Englische Bücher / Geisteswissenschaften / Literaturwissenschaft, England / Sprache, Anglistik / Literaturwissenschaft, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism