Christopher Gillie

A Preface to Jane Austen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An excellent introduction to one of the best known authors in English Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd Rev edition
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780582354814
• ISBN-10: 0582354811
• Artikelnr.: 39215880

Autorenporträt

CHRISTOPHER GILLIE is an Arts Tutor for the Open University having for a long period served Trinity Hall, Cambridge as a lecturer in English. Among other books he has compiled the Longman Companion to English Literature and in 1983 published the volume on E M Forster for the present series.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Biographical
Background 1 Character and Family Background 2 Religion 3 Mysteries and
Uncertainties 4 Juvenilia Part Two: Literary Background 5 Augustan Sense
and Sensibility 6 Literary Contemporaries: Isolation and Involvement 7 The
Eighteenth-century Novel
8 The Arts and the Social Order 9 Women in Life and Literature Part Three:
The Art of Jane Austen 10 Characterization: Heroines and Heroes 11 The
Construction of the Novels 12 Emma 13 Jane Austen's Place in English
Fiction Part Four: Reference Section Index