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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in 'Pride and Prejudice', it deftly introduces the novel's core themes of marriage, money, and social convention, themes that continue to resonate with readers over 200 years later. Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of unpublished works. Her books pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and, despite some accusations of a blinkered domestic and romantic focus, they represent the world of their characters with unsparing clarity. Here, Tom Keymer explores the major themes throughout Austen's novels, setting them in the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which they emerge, and showing how they engage with social tensions in an era dominated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The Jane Austen who emerges is a writer shaped by the literary experiments and socio-political debates of her time, increasingly drawn to a fundamentally conservative vision of social harmony, yet forever complicating this vision through her disruptive ironies and satirical energy.

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Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. As the best selling novel of its time, it provoked a swarm of responses: panegyrics and critiques, parodies and burlesques, piracies and sequels, comedies and operas. The controversy it inspired has become a standard point of reference in studies of the rise of the novel, the history of the book and the emergence of consumer culture. In the first book-length study of the Pamela controversy since 1960, Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor offer an original definitive account of the novel's enormous cultural impact.

820 "17" RICHARDSON, SAMUEL --- 094.1 <41> --- 655.4 <41> --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799--RICHARDSON, SAMUEL --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Book industries and trade --- English literature --- History --- Publishing --- Richardson, Samuel, --- 094.1 <41> Oude drukken: bibliografie----Europa--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 820 "17" RICHARDSON, SAMUEL Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799--RICHARDSON, SAMUEL --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries