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Jane Austen: A Beginner's Guide [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 96 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 198x128x8 mm, weight: 114 g, 8 b&w illustrations, glossary
  • Serija: Beginner's Guides
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2001
  • Leidėjas: John Murray Learning
  • ISBN-10: 0340803606
  • ISBN-13: 9780340803608
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 96 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 198x128x8 mm, weight: 114 g, 8 b&w illustrations, glossary
  • Serija: Beginner's Guides
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2001
  • Leidėjas: John Murray Learning
  • ISBN-10: 0340803606
  • ISBN-13: 9780340803608
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This guide introduces the life and works of Jane Austen, with her ideas and themes outlined with reference to her major works. The book explores how to approach her novels, the influences behind her writing, the contemporary critical approaches to Austen and her work, and the influence of Austen in her own lifetime and in the 21st century.

Recenzijos

I think everyone would enjoy the amusing sketches and Abbott's enthusiastic, occasionally chatty style... I would also argue that the best feature of this guide is its clarity...an encouraging statement to a daunted beginner -- Newsletter - The Jane Austen Society 20021001

How to Use This Book viii
Begin reading the author viii
How to approach unfamiliar or difficult texts viii
Vocabulary ix
Summary ix
Why Read Jane Austen Today?
1(3)
Still very relevant
1(1)
Read her for her humour
1(1)
Read her for enjoyment
1(2)
Summary
3(1)
How to Approach Jane Austen
4(6)
Irony
4(2)
Free indirect discourse
6(2)
Satire
8(1)
Summary
9(1)
Biography
10(5)
An elusive figure
10(1)
Childhood and education
11(1)
First steps
11(1)
The move to Bath
12(1)
Offer of marriage
13(1)
Chawton
13(1)
Death
14(1)
Fame
14(1)
Summary
14(1)
The Social Scene
15(7)
Social class
15(2)
Money
17(1)
Primogeniture and entailing
17(1)
Society balls
18(1)
Marriage
19(1)
Travel
19(1)
Napoleonic Wars
19(1)
Growth of the novel
20(1)
Manners and etiquette
20(1)
Summary
21(1)
Major Works - Early Novels
22(16)
Northanger Abbey
22(5)
Pride and Prejudice
27(5)
Sense and Sensibility
32(5)
Summary
37(1)
Major Works - Later Novels
38(15)
Two types of heroine
38(1)
Mansfield Park
38(1)
Emma
38(10)
Persuasion
48(4)
Summary
52(1)
Early Critical Approaches
53(4)
Summary
56(1)
Modern Critical Approaches
57(14)
Marilyn Butler
57(3)
Alistair Duckworth
60(1)
Structuralism and Post-structuralism
61(4)
Feminist approaches to Austen
65(4)
New Historicism
69(1)
Summary
70(1)
Where to Next?
71(5)
Novels
71(1)
Letters
71(1)
Biographies
71(1)
Critical works
72(1)
Websites
72(1)
Places to visit
73(1)
Jane Austen Society
73(1)
Films of Austen novels
73(3)
Glossary 76(4)
Chronology of Major Works 80(1)
Further Reading 81(2)
Index 83


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