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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tanner, Tony. Jane Austen. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986 (OCoLC)568685428 |
Named Person: | Jane Austen; Jane Austen; Jane Austen |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tony Tanner |
ISBN: | 0674471733 9780674471733 0674471741 9780674471740 |
OCLC Number: | 13357915 |
Description: | ix, 291 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Jane Austen and the Novel -- Jane Austin and Society -- Jane Austen and Education -- Jane Austen and Language -- Anger in the Abbey Northhanger Abbey -- Secrecy and Sickness: Sense and Sensibility -- Knowledge and Opinion: Pride and Prejudice -- THE Quiet Thing: Mansfield Park -- The Match Maker: Emma -- In Between Persuasion -- The Disease of Activity: Sandition. |
Responsibility: | Tony Tanner. |
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This is the sort of intelligent study of a single author's oeuvre that has become uncommon in recent criticism. It is genuinely introductory as well as genuinely searching.--David Bromwich "New Republic " In a comprehensive volume embracing a lengthy chapter on each of Austen's six novels, as well as the unfinished fragment "Sanditon", and a massive introduction focusing on the works 'in the relation to problems concerned with society, education, and language', Tanner reveals a Jane Austen far more subtle, experimental, politically engaged, philosophically aware, and psychoanalytically sophisticated than has hitherto been supposed. On almost every page there is an expected disclosure of meaning.--Norman Fruman "Times Literary Supplement " One of the most readable books yet to appear on Jane Austen, as well as the most interesting in itself...It is continuously sensitive to the feel of fictive domesticity, and the potential of a situation in terms of what goes on in modern life, and has gone on in other novels.--John Bayley "London Review of Books " Read more...


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