Why Jane Austen?

by Rachel M. Brownstein

Book Overview

From the first publication of Pride and Prejudice to recent film versions of her life and work, Jane Austen has continued to provoke controversy and inspire fantasies of peculiar intimacy. Whether celebrated for her realism, proto-feminism, or patrician gentility, imagined as a subversive or a political conservative, Austen generates passions shaped by the ideologies and trends of her readers' time--and by her own memorable stories, characters, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231153902
• ISBN13: 9780231153904
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher