What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by Mullan, John

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call...
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What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by Mullan, John

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

CHF 27.96

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

CHF 27.96
Author: John Mullan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen? John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness.

In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austen's novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction. Readers will discover when Austen's characters had their meals and what shops they went to; how vicars made good livings; and how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen? illuminates the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and daring as a novelist. It uses telling passages from Austen's letters and details from her own life to explain episodes in her novels: readers will find out, for example, what novels she read, how much money she had to live on, and what she saw at the theater.

Written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Jane Austen? will allow readers to appreciate Jane Austen's work in greater depth than ever before.

Author: John Mullan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781620400425

About the Author
John Mullan is a professor in the English department at University College London and the author of How Novels Work. He writes a popular column on fiction for the Guardian, and has served as a judge for the Man Booker Prize. Mullan lectures widely on Jane Austen around the world.

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