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This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. Mary Waldron shows how Austen's novels exemplify the strong skepticism about contemporary... read more
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- Jane Austen: Add a description of this character.
- Cassandra Austen
- Emma Woodhouse
- Marianne Dashwood
- Mary Bennet
- Edmund Bertram
- George Knightley
- Fitzwilliam Darcy
- Catherine Morland
- John Willoughby
- Harriet Smith
- Elizabeth Bennet
- Captain Wentworth
- Henry Crawford
- Edward Ferrars
- Frank Churchill
- Elinor Dashwood
- Fanny Price
- Lady Russell
- Mrs. Percival
- Anne Elliot
- Colonel Brandon
- Mrs. Bennet
- Robert Martin
- Susan
- Mrs. Weston
- Maria Edgeworth
- Charles Bingley
- George Wickham
- Isabella Woodhouse Knightley
- Mrs. Gardiner
- Charlotte Lucas
- Jane Fairfax
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First Sentence edit
Early in her reading experience Jane Austen became obsessively interested in the form and language of the novel, and in its relationship with its readers; her first experimental writing was dominated by attempts to refashion fiction as she knew it.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Mary Waldron (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0521651301
Page Count: 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0521651301
Page Count: 204
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- Dewey: 305
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