What Jane Austen's characters read (and why)
Ford, Susan Allen2024
Book
Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader, so it's perhaps no surprise that many of her characters display a similar appetite for the written word. But what did her characters read and what would their literary choices have meant to Austen's own readership, both at the time and today? This book answers that question and more, focusing on each of her novels and unpacking the multiple (and often surprising) ways in which these inform the reading of Austen's works.
Main title:
What Jane Austen's characters read (and why) / Susan Allen Ford.
Author:
Ford, Susan Allen, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.©2024
Collation:
ix, 265 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"Her reading was very extensive": Austen and her community of great readers"What have you been judging from": Northanger Abby and Sense and sensibilityWhat becomes of the moral? Reading conduct books and Pride and prejudiceMansfield Park (Part 1): "Theatrical nonsense" and strategies of performanceMansfield Park (Part 2): Becoming "a renter, a chuser of books"Meaning to read more: Emma"Examples in books": Learning romance in PersuasionConclusion: Sanditon's "hard words": A "literary Alembic" or an "Amalgamation"?
ISBN:
9781350416710 (paperback)9781350416727 (hardback)
Dewey class:
823.7
LC class:
PR4038.C47
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
485974