Jane Austen's Art of Memory

by Jocelyn Harris

Book Overview

Jane Austen's Art of Memory offers a radical new thesis about Jane Austen's construction of her art. It argues that, with the help of her tenacious memory, she engaged in friendly dialogue with her predecessors, the English writers, a process that the eighteenth century called 'imitation'. Her allusions, far from being random, thicken and complicate her novels in a manner that is poetic rather than mimetic. Difficult critical cruxes resolve when her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521542073
• ISBN13: 9780521542074
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"