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Understanding Austen *Limited Availability*

Understanding Austen *Limited Availability*

ISBN: 9780709090786

Author: Maggie Lane

Publisher: Robert Hale

Format: Hardback, 240 Pages

Price: AUD $32.95
RRP: AUD $42.96

No other author uses abstract nouns as extensively as Jane Austen. Three of her six novels even draw on such words for their titles: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion. Terms like ‘elegance’, ‘gentility’ and ‘propriety’seem to define her well-ordered, judgemental world. 

In making the fine moral, psychological and social discriminations on which her plots depend, Jane Austen draws on the vocabulary of her age, which is both more abstract and more fixed than that of today. But as this study shows, she was capable of subtlety and even ambiguity in her deployment of such key concepts. 

Here, Maggie Lane, acclaimed author of many Jane Austen books, turns her attention to the fascinating nuances of Austen’s language and the way it embodies her most profound beliefs about human conduct and character.  

 

  • The first study of Jane Austen’s language in a generation
  • Enhances understanding of Jane Austen’s moral values through the discussion of key words
  • Investigates changes of meaning and explains words which may confuse modern readers
  • Affords Austen fans who cannot get enough of her writing the pleasure of encountering familiar passages in new contexts
  • Written by an acknowledged expert and acclaimed author in the field of Austen studies
  • Jargon-free style aimed at the general reader
Book Title: Understanding Austen *Limited Availability*
Author: Maggie Lane
Format: Hardback, 240 Pages
ISBN: 9780709090786
About the Author: Maggie Lane is the author of Jane Austen’s Family, Jane Austen’s England and Literary Daughters among other books. She has also published articles in The Annual Report of the Jane Austen Society and Persuasions, the journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She has lectured on Jane Austen in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Having served for many years on the committee of the Jane Austen Society UK, she is now Chair of its South West branch; she lives in Exeter.
Department: ADULT NON FICTION
Publisher: Robert Hale
Title Release: 2012 October

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