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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. In thus identifying her literary motivation,...
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This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. In thus identifying her literary motivation, this book offers a fresh and unifying critique of the novels
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index. - Description based on print version record
The juvenilia, the early unfinished novels and Northanger AbbeyThe non-heiresses: The Watsons and Pride and prejudice -- Sense and the single girl -- The frailties of Fanny -- Men of sense and silly wives: the confusions of Mr. Knightley -- Rationality and rebellion: Persuasion and the model girl -- Sanditon: conclusion.