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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Romance fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Auerbach, Emily, 1956- Searching for Jane Austen. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)636243704 |
Named Person: | Jane Austen; Jane Austen; Jane Austen; Jane Austen |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Emily Auerbach |
ISBN: | 0299201805 9780299201807 0299201848 9780299201845 |
OCLC Number: | 54768152 |
Description: | xiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Dear Aunt Jane: Putting Her Down and Touching Her Up -- Beware of Swoons:Jane Austen's Early Writings -- Only Genius, Wit, and Taste: Northanger Abbey -- An Excellent Heart: Sense and Sensibility -- The Liveliness of Your Mind: Pride and Prejudice -- All the Heroism of Principle: Mansfield Park -- An Imaginist Like Herself: Emma -- The Advantage of Maturity of Mind: Persuasion -- Behold Me Immortal: Finding Jane Austen Today -- Appendix A.A Barkeeper Entering the Kingdom of Heaven: Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen? -- Appendix B. Full Text of Mark Twain's 'Jane Austen.' |
Responsibility: | Emily Auerbach. |
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[Auerbach's] detailed knowledge of Austen's sources [gives] us a more complete impression of Austen's wide and eclectic interests. - New York Review of Books ""The Austen sketched here is an ambitious novelist, confident in her superior talent, with a subversive and biting sense of humor.... Readers who enjoyed the novel The Jane Austen Book Club will find similar pleasures here."" - Publishers Weekly ""Emily Auerbach's approach to Jane Austen is lively, engaging, and thoroughly modern. Like Austen, Auerbach wears her wide learning lightly and imparts a great deal of information in a most enjoyable manner. A witty, approachable introduction to Jane Austen for today's readers, using modern analytical techniques to reveal new aspects of a great writer."" - Margaret Drabble, editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature ""This 'search' for Jane Austen finds the playfulness and irreverence of her early writings present, to varying degrees, in all of the novels, but also finds a daring and powerful artist polishing her craft. Novel by novel, Auerbach overturns patronizing concepts about Austen's tiny canvas and limited view."" - Booklist Read more...


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