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Jane Austen & company : collected essays / Bruce Stovel ; Nora Foster Stovel, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stovel, Bruce, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation.
- Austen, Jane.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Contemporaries.
- Novelists, English--Criticism and interpretation.
- Novelists, English.
- Humorous stories, English--History and criticism.
- Humorous stories, English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta : Gutteridge Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her successors Waugh and Amis-comic novelists all. And comedy is the connection between these twelve elegant essays by the distinguished academic Bruce Stovel, who most lovingly engages Austen herself through his studies of her comic novels, her art of conversation, her pleasure principle, and her prayers. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel, the collection includes an introduction by Juliet McMaster and an afterword by Isobel Grundy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Tom Jones and the Odyssey
- Tristram Shandy and the Art of Gossip
- Female Difficulties Charlotte Lennoxs The Female Quixote and Frances Burneys Camilla
- Waverley and the Aeneid: Scotts Art of Allusion
- Jane Austen and the Pleasure Principle
- Asking versus Telling: One Aspect of Jane Austens Idea of Conversation
- A Contrariety of Emotion Jane Austens Ambivalent Lovers in Pride and Prejudice
- Once More, with Feeling: The Structure of Mansfield Park
- Comic Symmetry in Jane Austens Emma
- The Sentient Target of Death Jane Austens Prayers
- The Genesis of Evelyn Waughs Comic Vision: Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and Fall
- Traditional Comedy and the Comic Mask in Kingsley Amiss
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-88864-677-1
- OCLC:
- 980767131
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