Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey/Persuasion
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-43216-2
Verlag: Red Globe Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

Northanger Abbey was one of Jane Austen's earliest manuscripts; Persuasion was her last. Published together in a single volume after her death, the two books differ widely. Northanger Abbey is a spirited, Gothic parody, while Persuasion has increasingly been seen as a new direction for the Austen canon. The two texts have been widely analysed and debated since publication, and continue to be so today.

In this Readers' Guide, Enit Karafili Steiner:

• delineates a clear trajectory through the books' many interpretations over two centuries, mapping these out thematically and chronologically

• contextualises and brings into dialogue influential approaches such as psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism, and feminism

• discusses film adaptations of the novels and their relation to literary criticism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karafili Steiner, Enit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1. From Pen to Print.- 2. Contemporary Reception, 1818-1840s.- 3. Victorian Readers, 1850s-1900s.- 4. The 'Cult of Jane' and the Rise of the Novel, 1900s-1950s.- 5. The Text, the Unconscious, and Commodity, 1950s-1990s.- 6. Political and Historical Austen, 1950s-1990s.- 7. New Millennium, New Directions.- 8. From Words to Image and Sound.- Conclusion.- Endnotes.- Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Enit Karafili Steiner is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.