Book

Jane Austen

Summary: "This collection brings together a selection of recent representative critical essays on Austen from a variety of perspectives."--About this volume.

Record details

ISBN: 9781587656385
ISBN: 1587656388
Physical Description: print
vii, 349 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-334) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

About This Volume -- Jack Lynch / CAREER, LIFE, AND INFLUENCE: On Jane Austen -- Jack Lynch ; Biography of Jane Austen -- Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman ; The Paris Review Perspective -- Radhika Jones for The Paris Review / CRITICAL CONTEXTS: Jane Austen: A Cultural and Historical Context -- Neil Heims ; Jane Austen: The Critical Reception -- Bonnie Blackwell ; Pride, Prejudice, and Persuasion: A Comparison of Two Novels by Jane Austen -- Dominick Grace / CRITICAL READING: Emma -- Bernard J. Paris ; Jane Austen and Female Reading - Robert W. Uphaus ; Why There's No Sex in Jane Austen's Fiction -- Susan Morgan ; Liberty, Connection, and Tyranny: The Novels of Jane Austen and the Aesthetic Movement of the Picturesque -- Jill Heydt-Stevenson ; Of Woman Borne: Male Experience and Feminine Truth in Jane Austen's Novels -- Sarah R. Morrison ; Rank and Status -- Christopher Brooke ; Early Phase Versus Major Phase: The Changing Feelings of the Mind -- William Deresiewicz ; Conjecturing Possibilities: Reading and Misreading Texts in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice -- Felicia Bonaparte ; Pride and Prejudice and the Beauty of Justice -- Sarah Emsley / RESOURCES: Chronology of Jane Austen's Life ; Works by Jane Austen ; Biography ; About the Editor ; About The Paris Review ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Index.