Laurence W. Mazzeno

Jane Austen (eBook, ePUB)

Two Centuries of Criticism

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present.

Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-officesuccess. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was a woman in the early nineteenth century, she was longneglected by critics, hardly considered a major figure in English literature until well into the twentieth century, a hundred years after her death. Yet consequently she did not suffer from the reaction against Victorianism thatdid so much to hurt the reputation of Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, and others. How she rose to prominence among academic critics - and has retained her position through the constant shifting of academic and critical trends - is a story worth telling, as it suggests not only something about Austen's artistry but also about how changes in critical perspective can radically alter a writer's reputation.

Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: United Methodist Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782047568
• Artikelnr.: 45723772

Autorenporträt

LAURENCE W. MAZZENO is President Emeritus of Alvernia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Becoming England's Jane
1811-1917 Modernist
Humanist
and New Critical Approaches
1918-1948 The Zenith of Formalist and Humanist Criticism
1949-1974 The Austen Bicentenary
1975 (and Beyond) The Feminist Revolution in Austen Studies
1976-1990 Austen among the Theorists
1976-1990 Traditional Criticism
1976-1990 Theory-Based Criticism of Austen
1991-2008 Traditional Approaches to Austen
1991-2008 Speculations on the Future Works by Jane Austen Chronological List of Works Cited Index