A Jane Austen Encyclopedia

Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781567508895

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A Jane Austen Encyclopedia by Paul Poplawski Pdf

Perhaps the first modern novelist, Jane Austen (1775-1817) has left an indelible mark on the world of letters. She is best known as the author of penetrating studies of domestic life and manners, and her novels such as Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Mansfield Park (1814) continue to be read and appreciated today. Yet Austen also wrote numerous other pieces and a substantial body of letters. While her novels have received large amounts of critical attention, scholars have also increasingly studied her other writings, and Austen scholarship continues to grow each year. This reference book is an accurate, comprehensive, and detailed guide to her life and career. A chronology outlines the principal events in her life and places her within larger literary and historical contexts. The several hundred alphabetically arranged entries that follow identify characters and family members, discuss works and themes, and synthesize the large body of criticism that has grown around her works. Every one of her texts, including all of her minor writings, has a separate entry, as have most of her fictional characters. Entries for individual works typically provide details of composition and publication, a plot summary and critical commentary, a list of characters, and bibliographical references. The volume closes with an extensive bibliography of works by and about her.

Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Women novelists, English
ISBN : 0861721098

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A Jane Austen Encyclopedia by Paul Poplawski Pdf

Perhaps the first modern novelist, Jane Austen (1775-1817) has left an indelible mark on the world of letters. Best known as the author of penetrating studies of English domestic life and manners, her works continue to be read and appreciated today. Her writings have also generated an enormous volume of scholarship, and critics continue to offer insightful interpretations of her writings. This reference book is a comprehensive and detailed guide to her life and works. The chronologies that begin the volume outline the principal events in her life and place her works within larger historical and literary contexts. The alphabetically arranged entries that follow identify characters, discuss works and themes, and synthesize the vast body of criticism devoted to her writings. The volume concludes with extensive bibliographies of works by and about Austen.

Author : Paul Brody
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781629172378

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The Jane Austen Encyclopedia by Paul Brody Pdf

Jane Austen create an entire world in her novels. If you are a Jane Austen fan or find yourself trying to remember whose who and from what novel, then this is a must have reference. This book includes a biography of Jane Austen, study guides, historical notes, character overviews, and plot summaries for each of her published books. The digital version also includes the full-text of all of her published books. This is a collection of previous published books, which may also be purchased separately.

Author : Kirstin Olsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015060870378

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All Things Austen by Kirstin Olsen Pdf

Through more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries, this fact-filled compendium provides fascinating historical details about all the things that make up the material culture of Jane Austen's world.

Author : Claire Saim,Gwen Giret
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781835410639

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Jane Austen: The Visual Encyclopedia by Claire Saim,Gwen Giret Pdf

From the novels to the screen, from adaptions to filming secrets, dive into the world of Jane Austen. Discover her life, inspirations, correspondence and the incredible influence of her work in her time through to today. A modest young lady of the countryside gentry, like many of her heroines, Jane Austen could have made her life the theme of one of her novels. To understand the origins of her inspiration and her talent, first discover her life, her family, her loved ones, and the England so dear to her heart. Explore Jane Austen’s work, which consists of six completed novels, two incomplete novels, letters and early writings. Austen’s prestige as one of the most famous British novelists can be attributed to her unique writing style, biting irony, iconic characters, and timeless stories. From the written word to the screen, from adaptations to secrets and filming locations, this book invites you on a fascinating journey of discovery through Austen’s writing to its heritage and influence. Want to walk in the footsteps of Jane Austen, dressing in Regency style or simply enjoying a delicious Afternoon Tea? Look no further than The Complete Jane Austen Encyclopedia!

Author : Janet M. Todd,Janet Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521826446

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Jane Austen in Context by Janet M. Todd,Janet Todd Pdf

A lively illustrated collection of short essays on a wide range of aspects of Austen's life, work and times.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197957703X

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Emma by Jane Austen Pdf

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."

Author : Sushila Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000005031251

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Jane Austen by Sushila Singh Pdf

Author : Kirstin Olsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846450525

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All Things Austen by Kirstin Olsen Pdf

This encyclopedia takes readers from the works of Jane Austen into her world. Over 200 articles provide rich historical details about everyday and obscure objects mentioned in her novels and photos and illustrations accompany the essays that bring these works of fiction to life.

Author : Rachel Cohen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374720827

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Austen Years by Rachel Cohen Pdf

One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020 "A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer’s commitment to another." --The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice) "An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again." —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live "About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author." In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen’s novels. Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen’s novels, the scope of Austen Years widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen's novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father’s last letter, a moment paired with the grief of Sense and Sensibility and the social bonds of Pride and Prejudice. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples with her growing children, teaching, and her father’s legacy, all refracted through the denser, more complex Mansfield Park and Emma. With unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen’s life and literature, and guided by Austen’s mournful and hopeful final novel, Persuasion, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532404757

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pdf

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Author : Daniel Pool
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439144800

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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Pdf

A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.

Author : Rachel M. Brownstein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231153904

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Why Jane Austen? by Rachel M. Brownstein Pdf

Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351235327

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Jane Austen’s Geographies by Robert Clark Pdf

When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world. The essays in this collection research the historical significance of her many geographical references and suggest how contemporaries may have read them, whether as indications of the rapid development of national travel, or of Britain’s imperial status, or as signifiers of wealth and social class, or as symptomatic of political fears and aspirations. Specifically, the essays consider the representation of colonial mail-order wives and naval activities in the Mediterranean, the worrisome nomadism of contemporary capitalism, the complexity of her understanding of the actual places in which her fictions are set, her awareness of and eschewal of contemporary literary conventions, and the burden of the Austen family’s Kentish origins, the political implications of addresses in London and Northamptonshire. Skilful, detailed, and historically informed, these essays open domains of meaning in Austen’s texts that have often gone unseen by later readers but which were probably available to her coterie readers and clearly merit much closer critical attention.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015019116949

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Austen's Novels ... by Jane Austen Pdf