Jane Austen
Reflections of a Reader
Author(s)
Bartlett, Nora
Collection
ScholarLedLanguage
EnglishAbstract
"This volume presents an exhilarating and insightful collection of essays on Jane Austen – distilling the author’s deep understanding and appreciation of Austen’s works across a lifetime. The volume is both intra- and inter-textual in focus, ranging from perceptive analysis of individual scenes to the exploration of motifs across Austen’s fiction.
Full of astute connections, these lively discussions hinge on the study of human behaviour – from family relationships to sickness and hypochondria – highlighting Austen’s artful literary techniques and her powers of human observation.
Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader by (the late) Nora Bartlett is a brilliant contribution to the field of Jane Austen studies, both in its accessible style (which preserves the oral register of the original lectures), and in its foregrounding of the reader in a warm, compelling and incisive conversation about Austen’s works. As such, it will appeal widely to all lovers of Jane Austen, whether first-time readers, students or scholars."
Keywords
Jane Austen; fiction; human behaviour; family relationships; sickness; hypochondria; love; romance; literary criticism; regency; nineteenth centuryDOI
10.11647/OBP.0216ISBN
9781783749751, 9781783749768, 9781783749782, 9781783749799, 9781783749805Publisher
Open Book PublishersPublisher website
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/Publication date and place
2021Classification
Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900