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Jane Austen, Young Author (Hardcover, New edition)
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Jane Austen, Young Author (Hardcover, New edition)
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In her lively and accessibly written book, Juliet McMaster examines
Jane Austen's acute and frequently uproarious juvenile works as
important in their own right and for the ways they look forward to
her novels. Exploring the early works both collectively and
individually, McMaster shows how young Austen's fictional world,
peopled by guzzlers and unashamed self-seekers, operates by an
ethic of energy rather than the sympathy that dominates the novels.
A fully self-conscious artist, young Jane experimented freely with
literary modes - the epistolary, the omniscient, the drama. Early
on, she developed brilliantly pointed dialogue to match her
characters. Literary parody impels her creativity, and McMaster's
sustained study of Love and Friendship shows the same intricate
relation of the parody to the work it parodies that we later see
with Northanger Abbey and the Gothic novel. As an illustrator
herself, McMaster is especially attuned to the explicit and
sometimes hilarious descriptions of bodies that preceded Austen's
famous reticence about physicality. Rather than focusing on the
immaturities of the juvenilia, McMaster maps the gradual shifts in
tone and emphasis that signpost Austen's journey as a writer. She
shows, for instance, how the shameless husband-hunting in The Three
Sisters and the vigorous partisanship of The History of England
lead on to Pride and Prejudice. Her book will appeal to Austen's
critics and to passionate general readers, as well as to scholars
working in the fields of juvenilia, children's literature, and
childhood studies.
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