Jane Austen : two centuries of criticism

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Jane Austen : two centuries of criticism

Laurence W. Mazzeno

(Studies in English and American literature, linguistics, and culture, . Literary criticism in perspective)

Camden House, 2017, c2011

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Reprint. Originally published 2011

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present. Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-officesuccess. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was a woman in the early nineteenth century, she was longneglected by critics, hardly considered a major figure in English literature until well into the twentieth century, a hundred years after her death. Yet consequently she did not suffer from the reaction against Victorianism thatdid so much to hurt the reputation of Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, and others. How she rose to prominence among academic critics - and has retained her position through the constant shifting of academic and critical trends - is a story worth telling, as it suggests not only something about Austen's artistry but also about how changes in critical perspective can radically alter a writer's reputation. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.

目次

Introduction Becoming England's Jane, 1811-1917 Modernist, Humanist, and New Critical Approaches, 1918-1948 The Zenith of Formalist and Humanist Criticism, 1949-1974 The Austen Bicentenary, 1975 (and Beyond) The Feminist Revolution in Austen Studies, 1976-1990 Austen among the Theorists, 1976-1990 Traditional Criticism, 1976-1990 Theory-Based Criticism of Austen, 1991-2008 Traditional Approaches to Austen, 1991-2008 Speculations on the Future Works by Jane Austen Chronological List of Works Cited Index

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