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Todd, Janet

 
9780233005140: The Jane Austen Treasury: A Delightful collection of insights into her life, her times and her novels
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0233005145 ISBN 13: 9780233005140
Verlag: Welbeck, 2017

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A delightful collection of facts and insights devoted to the inimitable Jane Austen!
It&;s a truth universally acknowledged: Jane Austen is one of the most popular and loved authors in English literature. The Jane Austen Treasury brings this great novelist into focus, illuminating the attitudes and customs that shaped her life, times, and work. It explores the themes and historical context of each of her novels, revealing the complexities that underlie her timeless romances. Among the subjects examined are:
  • The marriage proposal that Austen accepted, only to change her mind
  • The mock grown-up fiction she wrote as a child
  • Her personal connections to the Napoleonic Wars
  • How her love of puzzles and verbal games influenced her writings
  • And much more!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janet Todd is an authority on literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Aberdeen University and the President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She is the author of many books on women in literature, including Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (Columbia University Press) and Jane Austen in Context (Cambridge University Press).

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A delightful collection of facts and insights devoted to the inimitable Jane Austen! It s a truth universally acknowledged: Jane Austen is one of the most popular and loved authors in English literature. The Jane Austen Treasury brings this great novelist into focus, illuminating the attitudes and customs that shaped her life, times, and work. It explores the themes and historical context of each of her novels, revealing the complexities that underlie her timeless romances. Among the subjects examined are:

  • The marriage proposal that Austen accepted, only to change her mind
  • The mock grown-up fiction she wrote as a child
  • Her personal connections to the Napoleonic Wars
  • How her love of puzzles and verbal games influenced her writings
  • And much more!

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Verlag
Welbeck
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0233005145
ISBN 13 
9780233005140
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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