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A companion to Jane Austen studies

A guide to the works of Jane Austen and the critical response to them. In light of the ambiguity of her texts, each major work is approached from a reader-response perspective, describing the reader's relationship to her writing. Separate chapters cover her poems, letters and prayers
Print Book, English, 2000
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2000
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 315 pages ; 24 cm
9780313306624, 0313306621
42649625
1. Sense and Sensibility: A Convergence of Readers/Viewers/Browsers / Rebecca Stephens Duncan
2. A Critical History of Sense and Sensibility / Rebecca Stephens Duncan
3. The Oppositional Reader and Pride and Prejudice / Johanna M. Smith
4. Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen and Her Readers / Elizabeth Langland
5. Fanny Price's "Customary" Subjectivity: Rereading the Individual in Mansfield Park / Anne B. McGrail
6. The Critical History of Mansfield Park / J. Pat Rogers
7. Lampoon and Lampoonability: Emma and the Riddle of Popularity / Thomas Dabbs
8. "And Very Good Lists They Were": Select Critical Readings of Jane Austen's Emma / Richard McDonald
9. Rereading Jane Austen: Dialogic Feminism in Northanger Abbey / Carole Gerster
10. Austen's Northanger Abbey: A Bibliographic Study / James R. Keller
11. Persuasion's Box of Contradictions / Claudia Stein
12. Degrees of maturity : the bibliographic history of Jane Austen's Persuasion / Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin
13. The juvenilia : energy versus sympathy / Juliet McMaster
14. Child's play : a short publication and critical history of Jane Austen's juvenilia / Eric Daffron
15. Tender toes, bow-wows, meow-meows and the devil : Jane Austen and the nature of evil / Paula Buck
16. Lady Susan : a bibliographical essay / Deborah Knuth
17. On the virtures of stout half-boots, Speculation and a little fresh hair powder : a political, yet jovial, reading of Jane Austen's The Watsons / Laura Hamblin
18. The Watsons : critical interpretations / Maureen Hourigan
19. Jane Austen's Sanditon / Peggy Huey
20. Jane Austen's letters in the nineteenth century : the politics of nostalgia / Stephanie Moss
21. Humor and wit in Jane Austen's poems and charades / Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin
22. Jane Austen's prayers : deism becoming theism / Elton E. Smith
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