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From the first publication of Pride and Prejudice to recent film versions of her life and work, Jane Austen continues to inspire fantasies of peculiar intimacy and provoke enthusiasm and debate. Celebrated in the nineteenth century for her realism and patrician gentility, condemned by some... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jane Austen: Add a description of this character.
- Emma Woodhouse
- Byron
- Mr. Darcy
- Mr. Knightley
- Harriet Smith
- Elizabeth Bennet
- Cassandra
- Frank Churchill
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Henry James
- Mr. Elton
- Edmund
- Mr. Collins
- Godwin
- Richardson
- Egerton Brydges
- Fanny
- Mary Crawford
- Walter Scott
- Anne Elliot
- Cecilia
- Marianne
- Thomas Bertram
- Robert Martin
- Mansfield Park
- Catherine Morland
- Jeffrey Aspern
- Robbie
- Dr. Johnson
- Bingley
First Sentence edit
"We remember that Jane Austen wrote novels. It might be worthwhile for her critics to read them." Virginia Woolf, "Jane Austen and the Geese" (1920)
Table of Contents edit
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Why We Read Jane Austen
2. Looking for Jane
3. Neighbors
4. Authors
5. Why We Reread Jane Austen
Afterwords
Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Rachel M. Brownstein (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 2011
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Page Count: 266
Publisher: Add the publisher.
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Publication Date: 2011
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Page Count: 266
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- Dewey: 823.7
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