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Jane Austen (Paperback)
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Jane Austen (Paperback)
Series: Writers and Their Work
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By assessing what was original in Jane Austen's fictional technique
in the context of the history of the novel, Robert Miles takes a
fresh look at how Austen came to be constructed as a model of
Englishness. For many readers Jane Austen is the quintessential
English author. Jane Austen sets out to explore the history of this
identification with Englishness in the context of a tradition of
criticism that has frequently tried to achieve the reverse: to
establish her difference, and distance, from 'us'. Rather than
simply showing how Austen differs from the heritage, Jane Austen
argues that many of the reasons for her construction as an English
cultural icon are to found in the works formal qualities, and often
in her most innovative techniques. After a review of her reception
as an 'English' author, and the salient critical attempts to render
her 'strange', Jane Austen moves on to consider the achievement of
personality in Austin's fiction; her creative use of comic
structures; her development of the novel of education; her constant
balance between 'realism' and the pastoral, novel and romance; and
her sophisticated, and, to an extent, novel use of free indirect
speech.
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