Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction

by Tom Keymer

Book Overview

Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and was a penetrating satirist of social tensions and trends in an era dominated by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198725957
• ISBN13: 9780198725954
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 7.0"