Jane Austen - Laura Dabundo

Jane Austen

A Companion

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
230 Seiten
2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7512-1 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
Written for students at all levels, this tightly focused book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates her work in the context of literary history; explores her fiction; and is an encyclopedic resource on the people, places, and things of relevance to Austen the person and writer.
Written for readers at all levels, this book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates her work in the context of literary history and criticism; explores her fiction; and features an encyclopedic, readable resource on the people, places and things of relevance to Austen the person and writer. Details on family members, beaux, friends, national affairs, church and state politics, themes, tropes, and literary devices ground the reader in Austen's world. Appendices offer resources for further reading and consider the massive modern industry that has grown up around Austen and her works.

Laura Dabundo is a professor of English emerita at Kennesaw State University outside Atlanta. She has written books, articles, and has presented papers at many conferences in America and internationally on Jane Austen, Romanticism, the Gothic, and detective and mystery fiction. Laurence W. Mazzeno, president emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania, is the author or editor of 20+ books and more than 300 articles and reviews on literature and history. He lives in Arvada, Colorado. Sue Norton, a lecturer of English at the Technological University Dublin since 1999, previously taught in University College Dublin, University College Cork and New Jersey City University.

Acknowledgments  viii
Preface  1
Abbreviations  3
Introduction  5
A Brief Biography: Who Was Jane Austen, the Human Being?  15
Chronological List of Jane Austen's Prose Fiction  21
Jane Austen: A Companion  23
Appendix A: Editions and Important Recent Reference Books  209
Appendix B: Adaptations, Sequels, Prequels, and Ephemera:
The ­Jane-Austen ­Military-Industrial Complex  214
Appendix C: Most of Jane Austen for Film, Television,
and the Internet as of 2020  228
Works Cited  231
Index  237

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature
Zusatzinfo 10 photos
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 445 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4766-7512-0 / 1476675120
ISBN-13 978-1-4766-7512-1 / 9781476675121
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