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Jane Austen.
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ISBN: 1587656388 9781587656385 9781587656392 Year: 2010 Publisher: Pasadena Salem Press

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By all accounts, Jane Austen seems to have lived a quiet, circumscribed life. The daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, she never married and rarely ventured outside the close-knit circle of her family and friends. But while her life may have been uneventful, her novels reveal a keen wit, an acute eye for social foibles, and a masterful prose style. Never out of print, her six novels have attracted a legion of enthusiastic fans and spawned multiple unofficial sequels and prequels as well as television and film adaptations. This title is divided into four sections: 1. Career, Life, and Influence - Original essays offer readers an introduction to Austen by explicating the culture and time period during which Austen wrote her classic novels and the long history of Austen criticism. 2. Critical Contexts - Austen's critical contexts are considered through a series of wide ranging overviews of her life and works. 3. Critical Readings - This main section of the book provides a sample of critical close readings from a number of schools of thought. Each essay is 2,500-5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "works Cited" along with endnotes. Essays are reprinted here to deepen readers' understanding of Austen and strengthen their engagement with the critical concerns surrounding her and her work. 4. Resources - The volume's appendices offer a section of useful reference resources: A chronology of the author's life; A complete list of the author's works and their original dates of publication; A general bibliography; A detailed paragraph on the volume's editor; Notes on the individual chapter authors; and A subject index.


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Jane's fame : how Jane Austin conquered the world
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ISBN: 9781847675330 1847675336 Year: 2010 Publisher: Edinburgh : Canongate Books,

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Part biography and part cultural history, this book narrates Jane Austen's personal struggle with the literary criticism as well as the change of public taste in English literature.


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Les éditions françaises de Jane Austen, 1815-2007 : L'apport de l'histoire éditoriale à la compréhension de la réception de l'auteur en France
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ISBN: 9782745320803 2745320807 Year: 2010 Volume: 88 Publisher: Paris : Honore Champion Editeur,

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"L’histoire des éditions françaises de Jane Austen, depuis 1815, apporte un éclairage essentiel sur la réception de l’écrivain en France. En effet, bien que ses six romans (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion) aient été publiés très tôt en français et n’aient presque jamais cessé de l’être, il existe un grand décalage entre sa renommée en France et en Grande-Bretagne, où elle est considérée comme l’un des plus grands écrivains britanniques.De ce côté-ci de la Manche, elle est plutôt présentée comme une romancière “sentimentale”, par conséquent appréciée avant tout par le lectorat féminin, ce qui peut s’expliquer par la médiocre qualité des éditions françaises publiées aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Bien que nombreuses, surtout dans les trente dernières années, ces traductions offrent en effet une image déformée de l’œuvre de Jane Austen. Pourquoi et par qui a-t-elle été traduite ? Quand, et à l’initiative de quels éditeurs ? Le présent ouvrage donne à voir la qualité des traductions, mais il resitue avant tout les éditions françaises dans un contexte historique et littéraire.Il met en lumière les raisons pour lesquelles Jane Austen fut éditée, à côté de quels autres auteurs, dans quelles collections, et surtout pour quel public. Ainsi peut-on cerner l’image de la romancière dessinée par le monde de l’édition français, à destination de ses lecteurs. Dans la tradition de la bibliographie matérielle, les “objets-livres” constituent un matériau d’étude de premier plan, et l’ensemble du paratexte qu’ils offrent – premières et quatrièmes de couvertures, introductions, postfaces, illustrations – sont autant de précieux indices pour éclairer la manière dont la romancière a été, au fil du temps, “présentée” aux lecteurs par ses éditeurs, traducteurs ou préfaciers.Rangée à côté des “romancières anglaises” ou parmi les femmes auteurs “mineurs”, elle n’est que rarement perçue comme un écrivain de génie, alors que dans le monde anglophone la figure populaire de Jane Austen, qui se développe aujourd’hui de manière spectaculaire, est nettement dissociée de sa reconnaissance de longue date dans le monde des lettres. Il semble pourtant qu’une évolution se soit produite dans la perception française de ses romans, en particulier depuis la fin du XXe siècle qui a vu la “redécouverte” d’Austen, par l’éditeur Christian Bourgois notamment, alors qu’en parallèle le paratexte critique universitaire prenait davantage d’importance.Néanmoins, l’inflation d’éditions de poche de médiocre qualité – souvent motivées par la sortie d’adaptations cinématographiques – montre que la réception de Jane Austen en France demeure à construire, et que ce grand écrivain reste injustement méconnu de ceux qui la lisent en traduction française."


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Pride and prejudice : an annotated edition
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ISBN: 9780674049161 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : the Belknap press of Harvard university press,

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The text of Jane Austen's classic tale is accompanied by an introduction to the author's life and work and explanatory notes discussing the novel's historical context, language, characters, and themes.


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Rethinking Jane Austen?s Lady Susan
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ISBN: 0773429891 9780773429895 9780773436466 0773436464 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press

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This full-length study of Lady Susan refutes the long-accepted, unchallenged critical view of the novella put forward by Austen scholars that largely deems the work to be unsatisfactory and marginal. Eschewing the idea that this novella is stylistically regressive, the study argues thatLady Susan was left unfinished for political and commercial reasons.


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Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf
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ISBN: 9780801476631 0801476631 9780801447075 Year: 2010 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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Mary Jean Corbett shows how the domestic fiction of novelists from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf reflected the shifting boundaries of 'family' & in turn helped to refine those boundaries.


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Contemporary women writers look back: from irony to nostalgia
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Year: 2010 Publisher: London Continuum

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Constancy & the ethics of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
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ISBN: 0813218977 9780813218977 9780813217901 0813217903 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press


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Corpus linguistics in literary analysis
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ISBN: 128282189X 9786612821899 1441158839 9781441158833 9781282821897 184706437X 9781847064370 1847064388 9781847064387 9781847064370 9781847064387 6612821892 Year: 2010 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora. . The first part of the book addresses theoretical issues such as the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in corpus linguistic analyses, criteria for the evaluation of results from corpus linguistic analyses and also discusses units of meaning in language. The second part of the book takes this theory and applies it to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and to two corpora


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A memoir of Jane Austen : together with 'Lady Susan' : a novel, etc
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ISBN: 0511693664 1108003575 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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When James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his famous aunt was published in 1870, far from satisfying public curiosity about Jane Austen as the family had intended, it simply raised a series of new questions, particularly about Jane Austen's unpublished work, which had been mentioned only in passing. Austen Leigh was persuaded to issue a much-expanded second edition in 1871. Here he included for the first time the complete texts of Jane Austen's novel in letters, Lady Susan, and the fragmentary novel The Watsons, as well as a brief summary of her last unfinished work, later known as Sanditon. At the same time he took the opportunity to revise the biographical sections of the Memoir partly to include new information that had come to light since the first edition, so that all in all the second edition has a significance for Austen scholars quite separate from the first.

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