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Jane Austen
This book offers a one-volume study of Jane Austen that is both a sophisticated critical introduction and a valuable contribution to the study of one of the most popular and enduring British novelists. Darryl Jones provides students with a coherent overview of Austen's work and an idea of the current state of critical debate.
252 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
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Darryl Jones
12 books7 followersProfessor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Trinity College Dublin
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December 30, 2019
Jones, Darryl. Jane Austen: Critical Issues. MacMillan, 2004.
In this nicely contextualized study of Austen’s novels, I think it is fair to say that Darryl Jones finds more sexual puns and innuendos in Austen’s work than most of us notice the first time around. What does it mean when Emma crosses the ha-ha? Jones does well to remind us that Austen’s heroines are almost all teenagers, and that she wrote marriage-plot stories because that was what there was a market for. Finally, Jones argues that Austen was not ignorant of the war with France that was shaping her society.
In this nicely contextualized study of Austen’s novels, I think it is fair to say that Darryl Jones finds more sexual puns and innuendos in Austen’s work than most of us notice the first time around. What does it mean when Emma crosses the ha-ha? Jones does well to remind us that Austen’s heroines are almost all teenagers, and that she wrote marriage-plot stories because that was what there was a market for. Finally, Jones argues that Austen was not ignorant of the war with France that was shaping her society.
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