Fr. 29.50

Reading Jane Austen

Inglese · Tascabile

Spedizione di solito entro 3 a 5 settimane

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

Sommario










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

Info autore

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).

Riassunto

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.

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