The Jane Austen Treasury - Couverture rigide

Todd, Janet

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0233005145 ISBN 13 : 9780233005140

Editeur : Welbeck, 2017

Synopsis

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!
  

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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. Her books include Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life and Jane Austen in Context.

• 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!
  

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Welbeck
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0233005145
• ISBN 13: 9780233005140
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible