Jane Austen: A Companion

Johnson and Tuite answer that the study of Austen today is a "diverse, expansive, excitable and critical life-form", growing and changing with new audiences and approaches to literary criticism.

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A Companion to Jane Austen. Added to Your Shopping Cart. Description Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.

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Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

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Johnson joined the faculty at Princeton in and now serves as Department Chair. She specializes in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, with a particular emphasis on the novel. This illuminating, entertaining, up-to-dat The only best-selling authors in Jane Austen's league in the English language today are Shakespeare and Dickens. This illuminating, entertaining, up-to-date companion is the only general guide to Jane Austen, her work, and her world. Josephine Ross explores the literary scene during the time Austen's works first appeared: What, for example, was "hartshorn"?

How did Lizzy Bennet "let down" her gown to hide her muddy petticoat? Ross shows us the fashions, and the subtle ways Jane Austen used clothes to express character. Courtship, marriage, adultery, class and "rank," mundane tasks of ordinary life, all appear, as does the wider political and military world.

This book will add depth to all readers' enjoyment of Jane Austen, whether confirmed addicts or newcomers wanting to learn about one of the world's most popular and enduring writers. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Jane Austen , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Apr 16, Laura rated it really liked it Shelves: By far my favorite companion to her novels. Jul 04, Amy rated it it was amazing Shelves: Highly enjoyable and recommended for all fans of Jane Austen's novels. Ross beautifully chronicles Jane Austen's life, the era's fashion, architecture, literature, food, daily living, gener relations and current events.

Did you know it was considered rude to make a personal remark--even a compliment--in Jane's time? Good cultural background to some of my favorite novels. May 26, Rachel Westby rated it liked it. Not sure why I didn't like this one. It felt more like a memoir with occasional references to her books tossed in, and maybe I was looking for more book analysis.

So it is probably not Josephine Ross's fault that I only rated this one three stars!

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Description Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.

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