Jane Austen

by B.C. Southam

There have been innumerable reinterpretations of her work but no revaluations. Brian Southam shows how different readers and critics have reacted to her work - from perceptive and appreciative review of Emma by her contemporary Sir Walter Scott, to the admiration of D. H. Lawrence, who nonetheless assessed her as 'a narrow-gutted spinster.' Mr Southam considers how Jane Austen invented her own special mode of fiction, limited and highly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582012430
• ISBN13: 9780582012431
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 67 Pages