Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood

by Kathryn Sutherland

Book Overview

Through three intertwined histories Jane Austen's Textual Lives offers a new way of approaching and reading a very familiar author. One is a history of the transmission and transformation of Jane Austen through manuscripts, critical editions, biographies, and adaptations; a second provides a conspectus of the development of English Studies as a discipline in which the original and primary place of textual criticism is recovered; and a third reviews...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199234280
• ISBN13: 9780199234288
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"