Jane Austen and her Predecessors

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Paperback, 188 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9780521148252
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This is a study of influences on Jane Austen's art and views of life. She assimilated and transformed certain writings of earlier essayists and novelists; she was herself a potent influence. Dr Bradbrook provides the literary critic with a fresh position from which to inspect the novels. He isolates several kinds of influence that had affect on Jane, which he inspects one by one. First there are the periodical essayists, the moralists in prose and the writers of conduct books. These were sources of general reflections on moral and social behaviour: and especially interesting to Jane Austen when they touched on the position of women. Dr Bradbrook sketches her knowledge of and taste in the drama and poetry of the eighteenth century. In the second half of the book Dr Bradbrook analyses the influence that earlier novelists had on Jane Austen. Useful appendices reproduce some of the rarer sources.

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ISBN13:9780521148252
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:188

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Preface; Part I. The General Literary Tradition: 1. Periodicals; 2. Moralists in prose; 3. The picturesque; 4. Drama and poetry; Part II. The Tradition in the Novel: 5. The beginnings; 6. The feminist tradition; 7. Other influences; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Books for young ladies; Appendix 2. Lady Sara Pennington's An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to Her Absent Daughters; Appendix 3. Mrs Jane West's Letters to a Young Lady; Appendix 4. William Gilpin: An Essay upon Prints; Bibliography; Index.

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