Jane Austen in Context

Hardback

Main Details

Title Jane Austen in Context
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Janet Todd
SeriesLiterature in Context
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:498
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780521826440
ClassificationsDewey:823.7
Audience
Professional & Vocational
General
Illustrations 43 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 20 October 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits, critical responses to translations, agriculture to transport. An essay on the reception of Austen's work is also included, showing how criticism of Austen has responded to literary movements and fashions. The volume emphasises the subtle interactions between Austen's life and times and her novels. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.

Author Biography

Janet Todd is Herbert J. C. Grierson Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen.

Reviews

"Jane Austen deserves, and here gets, the reward of other people's skillful work on her little bit of ivory, two inches wide... The Cambridge Edition justifies its claim to the 'the first ever scholarly edition of the works of Jane Austen', and is a fine tribute to her for the twenty-first century." -Jane Austen Society Newsletter