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What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
Contributor(s): Mullan, John (Author)
ISBN: 1620400421     ISBN-13: 9781620400425
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
Dewey: 823.7
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen? John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness.

In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austen's novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction. Readers will discover when Austen's characters had their meals and what shops they went to; how vicars made good livings; and how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen? illuminates the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and daring as a novelist. It uses telling passages from Austen's letters and details from her own life to explain episodes in her novels: readers will find out, for example, what novels she read, how much money she had to live on, and what she saw at the theater.

Written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Jane Austen? will allow readers to appreciate Jane Austen's work in greater depth than ever before.