Jane Austen

by B.C. Southam

Book Overview

There have been innumerable reinterpretations of her work but no revaluations. Brian Southam shows how different readers and critics have reacted to her work - from perceptive and appreciative review of Emma by her contemporary Sir Walter Scott, to the admiration of D. H. Lawrence, who nonetheless assessed her as 'a narrow-gutted spinster.' Mr Southam considers how Jane Austen invented her own special mode of fiction, limited and highly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582012430
• ISBN13: 9780582012431
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 67 Pages