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Jane Austen, Early and Late (Hardcover)
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Jane Austen, Early and Late (Hardcover)
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A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers
their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges
distinctions between her "early" and "late" work Jane Austen's six
novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a
body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact. Her earlier
writings have routinely been dismissed as mere juvenilia, or
stepping stones to mature proficiency and greatness. Austen's first
biographer described them as "childish effusions." Was he right to
do so? Can the novels be definitively separated from the
unpublished works? In Jane Austen, Early and Late, Freya Johnston
argues that they cannot. Examining the three manuscript volumes in
which Austen collected her earliest writings, Johnston finds that
Austen's regard and affection for them are revealed by her
continuing to revisit and revise them throughout her adult life.
The teenage works share the milieu and the humour of the novels,
while revealing more clearly the sources and influences upon which
Austen drew. Johnston upends the conventional narrative, according
to which Austen discarded the satire and fantasy of her first
writings in favour of the irony and realism of the novels. By
demonstrating a stylistic and thematic continuity across the full
range of Austen's work, Johnston asks whether it makes sense to
speak of an early and a late Austen at all. Jane Austen, Early and
Late offers a new picture of the author in all her complexity and
ambiguity, and shows us that it is not necessarily true that early
work yields to later, better things.
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