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Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts
A Study of the Novelist's Development Through the Surviving Papers Revised Edition
Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts
A Study of the Novelist's Development Through the Surviving Papers Revised Edition
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Description
Jane AustenÆs Literary Manuscripts is the definitive study of Jane AustenÆs manuscripts from the juvenilia through to Sanditon, her final, unfinished novel. This new edition includes an additional section on "Sir Charles Grandison", the last work to be added to the Austen canon by Brian Southam in 1979.
Table of Contents
Preface
References
List of Manuscripts Used
1. The Writing of the Juvenilia
2. A Critical Study of the Juvenilia
3. Lady Susan and the Lost Originals 1795-1800
4. The Watsons
5. The Plan of a Novel
6. The Two Chapters of Persuasion
7. The Last Work, Sanditon
8. Sir Charles Grandison
Appendix: Theories of Composition for Mansfield Park and Emma
Product details
Published | Feb 01 2002 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 2nd |
Extent | 176 |
ISBN | 9781847141224 |
Imprint | The Athlone Press |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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"Thorough, informed and sensitive....a notable piece of work."--Times Literary Supplement
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"[this] pioneering investigation...tells us much more about Jane Austen both as a person and as an artists than any popular biography could do."--Graham Handley
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"One of the most valuable features of his study is that it concentrates attention on the professionalism of Jane Austen as a novelist."--Marilyn Butler, Essays in Criticism