Searching for Jane AustenUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 2004 - 344 páginas Searching for Jane Austen demolishes with wit and vivacity the often-held view of "Jane," a decorous maiden aunt writing her small drawing-room stories of teas and balls. Emily Auerbach presents a different Jane Austen--a brilliant writer who, despite the obstacles facing women of her time, worked seriously on improving her craft and became one of the world's greatest novelists, a master of wit, irony, and character development. In this beautifully illustrated and lively work, Auerbach surveys two centuries of editing, censoring, and distorting Austen's life and writings. Auerbach samples Austen's flamboyant, risqué adolescent works featuring heroines who get drunk, lie, steal, raise armies, and throw rivals out of windows. She demonstrates that Austen constantly tested and improved her skills by setting herself a new challenge in each of her six novels. In addition, Auerbach considers Austen's final irreverent writings, discusses her tragic death at the age of forty-one, and ferrets out ridiculous modern adaptations and illustrations, including ads, cartoons, book jackets, newspaper articles, plays, and films from our own time. An appendix reprints a ground-breaking article that introduced Mark Twain's "Jane Austen," an unfinished and unforgettable essay in which Twain and Austen enter into mortal combat. |
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... York in 1991. Fast's two - person play presents Jane Austen in 1817 conversing with Captain Thomas Crighton , an imagi- nary friend of Austen's brother . The two are listed as " Jane " and " Crighton . " Our stage directions reassure us ...
... York in 1991. Fast's two - person play presents Jane Austen in 1817 conversing with Captain Thomas Crighton , an imagi- nary friend of Austen's brother . The two are listed as " Jane " and " Crighton . " Our stage directions reassure us ...
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... York and London : Scribners , 1925 ) , 128-30 ; Chapman , Jane Austen , 201 ; Ronald Blythe , introduction to Emma ( Middlesex : Penguin , 1966 ) , 7 . 2. John J. McAleer , introduction to Death Times Three by Rex Stout ( New York ...
... York and London : Scribners , 1925 ) , 128-30 ; Chapman , Jane Austen , 201 ; Ronald Blythe , introduction to Emma ( Middlesex : Penguin , 1966 ) , 7 . 2. John J. McAleer , introduction to Death Times Three by Rex Stout ( New York ...
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... York Times , Op - Ed Page , 27 July 2001 , A21 . 36. Brabourne , preface to Letters of Jane Austen , 1 : 47 . 37. Siegel , " A Writer Who Is Good for You . " 38. Howard Fast , The Novelist : A Romantic Portrait of Jane Austen ( New York ...
... York Times , Op - Ed Page , 27 July 2001 , A21 . 36. Brabourne , preface to Letters of Jane Austen , 1 : 47 . 37. Siegel , " A Writer Who Is Good for You . " 38. Howard Fast , The Novelist : A Romantic Portrait of Jane Austen ( New York ...
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Putting Her Down and Touching Her Up | 3 |
Jane Austens Early Writings | 41 |
Northanger Abbey | 70 |
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