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Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This innovative introduction by a leading scholar and editor of her work explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and reception. Each novel is discussed in detail, and all the essential information about her life and literary influences, her novels and letters, and her impact on later literature and culture is covered. While the book considers the key areas of current critical focus its analysis remains thoroughly grounded in readings of the texts themselves. Janet Todd outlines what makes Austen's prose style so innovative and gives useful starting points for the study of the major works, with suggestions for further reading. This book is an essential purchase for all students of Austen, as well as for readers wanting to deepen their appreciation of the novels.

Austen, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation --- 820 "18" AUSTEN, JANE --- 820 "18" AUSTEN, JANE Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--AUSTEN, JANE --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--AUSTEN, JANE --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- English literature. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Austen, Jane, - 1775-1817 - Criticism and interpretation --- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --- Austen, Jane, - 1775-1817

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"An excellent example of literary criticism, as each of the fourteen essays is well-researched and scholarly but with a touch of humor."--Film & History. "Few scholarly works excite sufficient demand to require a second edition within three yours of the first publication, but this collection of essays on Austen and Hollywood has attracted an audience far beyond academe."--Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography. "It is good to know that serious study of Austen's stature as a cultural icon for different reading publics is beginning."--Times Literary Supplement. "Such a book was sure to follow the Austen explosion and we welcome it."--Literature/Film Quarterly. "This book has something for both the Austen scholar and the Austen enthusiast."--Booklist. "[These articles] are engaging and sure to spark discussion"--Library Journal. In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced -- an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end of the millennium for an age of greater politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness also appeals to our fin de siecle sensibilities. The novels were changed, however, to enhance their appeal to a wide popular audience, and the revisions reveal much about our own culture and its values. These recent productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him conform to modern expectations. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield present fourteen essays examining the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, providing thoughtful and sympathetic insights on the films through a variety of critical approaches. The contributors debate whether these productions enhance or undercut the subtle feminism that Austen promoted in her novels. From Persuasion to Pride and Prejudice, from the three Emmas (including Clueless) to Sense and Sensibility, these films succeed because they flatter our intelligence and education. And they have as much to tell us about ourselves as they do about the world of Jane Austen. This second edition includes a new chapter on the recent film version of Mansfield Park.

Women in motion pictures. --- Film adaptations --- English fiction --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Austen, Jane, --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Film and video adaptations. --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- In motion pictures. --- Roman anglais --- Cinéma --- Femmes au cinéma --- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées --- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) --- Angleterre au cinéma --- Angleterre au cinéma. --- Aufsatzsammlung. --- Engels. --- Femmes au cinéma. --- Film adaptations. --- Motion pictures. --- Roman. --- Romans. --- Verfilmingen. --- Verfilmung. --- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées. --- Andrae, A. --- Austen, Jane. --- England. --- Women in motion pictures --- Cinéma --- --Littérature --- --Austen, Jane, --- Film and video adaptations --- In motion pictures --- Littérature --- Austen, Jane, - 1775-1817 - Film and video adaptations --- England - In motion pictures --- Austen, Jane, - 1775-1817

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A classic account of Jane Austen in the context of eighteenth century feminist ideas and contemporary thought.

Feminism and literature --- Women and literature --- History --- Austen, Jane, --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Political and social views. --- England --- 19th century --- Austen, Jane --- Political and social views --- Austen, Jane, - 1775-1817 - Political and social views.

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Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative theory. Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. Through close readings of such novels as Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and Le Père Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. Each individual--whether the central figure or a radically subordinated one--emerges as a character only through his or her distinct and contingent space within the narrative as a whole. The "character-space," as Woloch defines it, marks the dramatic interaction between an implied person and his or her delimited position within a narrative structure. The organization of, and clashes between, many character-spaces within a single narrative totality is essential to the novel's very achievement and concerns, striking at issues central to narrative poetics, the aesthetics of realism, and the dynamics of literary representation. Woloch's discussion of character-space allows for a different history of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. By making the implied person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, this book offers a forward-looking avenue for contemporary narrative theory.

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Thematology --- Austen, Jane --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Romance fiction, English --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Oriental fiction --- History and criticism. --- Austen, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views. --- Influence. --- Oriental literature --- English romance fiction --- Love stories, English --- English fiction --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- AUSTEN (JANE), 1775-1817 --- Postcolonialisme --- COLONIES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ROLE SELON LE SEXE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE ORIENTALE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- Nationalism --- Writers --- Book --- Colonies --- Dans la littérature