Jane Austen and the Popular Novel The Determined Author

, by Mandal, Anthony

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ISBN: 9780230008960 | 0230008968
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/15/2007

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This volume provides a fresh and alternative perspective on the mature fiction of Jane Austen.

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List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
The Literary Context and Austen's Early Fiction	p. 1
Introduction: Fiction and the Literary Marketplace, 1785-1820	p. 3
The production of fiction, 1785-99	p. 6
The production of fiction, 1800-19	p. 17
Conclusion	p. 38
Jane Austen and Fiction, 1787-1809	p. 41
Reading and revision: Austen's juvenilia and Lady Susan	p. 42
Jane Austen and her (non-)publishers, 1: Cadell & Davies	p. 51
Jane Austen and her (non-)publishers, 2: Crosby & Co.	p. 62
Getting Published at Last, 1811-13	p. 75
Austen's first publisher: Thomas Egerton and Sense and Sensibility	p. 77
Achieving celebrity: Pride and Prejudice	p. 83
Postscript	p. 87
Austen's Regency Novels	p. 89
Making the Popular Polite: Mansfield Park and the Moral-Domestic Novel	p. 91
The publishing context	p. 94
Literary conventions and social models	p. 102
The Evangelical heroine and Fanny Price: fulfilment or failure?	p. 118
Woman as Genius/Genius Loci: Emma as an English National Tale	p. 131
The social and literary contexts of Emma	p. 133
National heroinism	p. 141
'To be a true citizen of Highbury'	p. 152
The Business of Novel Writing: Walter Scott and Persuasion	p. 168
Fame, profit, and 'The Great Unknown'	p. 169
Heirs presumptive and presuming heirs: Scott, Austen, and the work of history	p. 184
Conclusion: The Canonization of Jane Austen	p. 203
Austen looks forward: Sanditon and modernity	p. 204
Austen for a new generation: Bentley's Standard Novels	p. 207
Reconstructing Austen: Whately, Leavis, Siskin	p. 209
Notes	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 234
Index	p. 246
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Jane Austen and the Popular Novel The Determined Author

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