Synopses & Reviews
This book was first published in 1975, the bicentenary of Jane Austen's birth. Though she has long been recognized as one of the major English novelists her reputation was established relatively late and has withstood periods of neglect and controversy. The present volume brings together nineteen essays that marked the bicentenary and in doing so reflected the critical attitudes which some of the twentieth century's most influential scholars have entertained towards the novelist. These essays range from nineteenth-century reactions to the novels and to the novelist herself, through twentieth-century criticism of the individual novels, to considerations of the novelist's reputation abroad. This book will be of interest both to scholars and students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction and also to the general reader of Jane Austen's novels.
Synopsis
This volume brings together nineteen essays that marked the bicentenary of Jane Austen's birth and reflect twentieth-century critical attitudes.
Table of Contents
Halperin, J. Introduction: Jane Austen's nineteenth-century critics.--Brower, R. A. From the Iliad to Jane Austen, via The rape of the lock.--Tave, S. M. Jane Austen and one of her contemporaries.--Hodge, J. A. Jane Austen and her publishers.--Burlin, K. R. The pen of the contriver.--Zimmerman, E. Admiring Pope no more than is proper.--Heilman, R. B. E pluribus unum.--Kroeber, K. Pride and prejudice.--Brissenden, R. F. Mansfield Park.--Moler, K. L. The two voices of Fanny Price.--Hardy, B. The objects in Mansfield Park.--Halperin, J. The worlds of Emma.--Wiesenfarth, J. Emma.--Litz, A. W. Persuasion.--Lascelles, M. Jane Austen and the novel.--Mudrick, M. Jane Austen's drawing-room.--Greene, D. Jane Austen's monsters.--Duckworth, A. M. Spillikins, paper ships, riddles, conundrums, and cards.--Wright, A. Jane Austen abroad.