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Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts: A Study of the Novelist's Development Through the Surviving Papers

Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts: A Study of the Novelist's Development Through the Surviving Papers - Continuum Studies in Jane Austen

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Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts remains the definitive account of the novelist's surviving papers. These date from 1787 to 1817, from the first beginning to the veyr end of her writing career. Their evidence considerably deepens our understanding of the imaginative process that stands behind the composition of the great novels. In Sanditon, the last work, we see the promise of a further and startling development in her art. The influence of her childhood reading and home life is considered in the first chapter, and a further new chapter examines Sir Charles Grandison, a work newly attributed to Jane Austen by Brian Southam in 1977. In an appendix, Southam discusses Mrs Leavis's theory concerning the relationship between Jane Austen's life and art, and between the juvenilia and the later novels.

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ISBN: 9780826490704
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub date:
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 823.7
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 159
Weight: 200g
Height: 140mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 10mm