...Frances Ferguson © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.1-08Ferguson.ak 6/1/00 2:30 PM Page 157 Jane Austen, Emma, and the Impact of Form Frances Ferguson ne of the criticisms leveled at formalist criticism is that it claims...

...Tamara S. Wagner [email protected] The Lost Books of Jane Austen . By Janine Barchas . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2019 . xv + 284 pp. Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 The Lost Books of Jane Austen is, first of all, a beautiful...

...? PAULDELANY Simon Fraser University Some Words of Jane Austen. By S’IIJAKI- M. TAVE.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xii + 287 pp. $9.95. Stuart Tave’s Some Words of Jane Austen is an important addition to criti- cism of her novels, for it develops...

...Avrom Fleishman Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 THE STATE OF THE ART RECENT JANE AUSTEN CRITICISM’ By AVROMFLEISHMAN Without excessive fanfare, the Jane Austen community has gathered its forces...

...Claudia L. Johnson Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 THE “OPERATIONS OF TIME, AND THE CHANGES OF THE HUMAN MIND” JANE AUSTEN AND DR. JOHNSON AGAIN...

... the essential nature” of Jane Austen’s “known excellencies” by analyzing the “clear line of tlc\~elopment” in her six novels. This emphasis on de\-elopnient in narrati1.e tcchnique sets her study somewhat apart from such general assessments as those of Mary Lascelles (to whom Craik pays the tribute...

...Lance Bertelsen Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 ∗ My thanks to the Yale Center for British Art and the National Humanities Center for generous support during the writing of this essay. JANE AUSTEN’S MINIATURES PAINTING, DRAWING...

...Matthew Sussman Abstract This essay offers a significant reconceptualization of Jane Austen’s influence on political novelists of the mid-nineteenth century by examining Elizabeth Gaskell’s extensive use of Pride and Prejudice (1813) in her novel North and South (1855). At a moment when...

...Amit S. Yahav Abstract This essay examines the theory of leisure that Samuel Johnson presents in his Idler series and that Jane Austen engages in her novel Mansfield Park . Just as productivity and vigilance are becoming unassailable values, Johnson and Austen publish popular works designed...

...Figure 1. Jane Austen Secular Saint Candle. Photograph courtesy of the Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild. ...

... from Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen—is to better apprehend how in the early eighteenth century the marriage plot’s ideal of heterosexual complementarity had not yet become the only game in town. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 Nancy Armstrong contracts exchange...

... , edited by Adams Hazard , 48 – 66 . New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . Austen Jane . 2003 . Northanger Abbey and Other Works , edited by Kinsley James Davie John . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Benjamin Walter . 1969 . Illuminations , edited by Arendt...

... stage in their history to recover their forgotten political significance. Working across four central cases (Samuel Richardson’s “man of feeling” Sir Charles Grandison, Charlotte Smith’s self-effacing protagonist Lionel Desmond, Walter Scott’s “mediocre heroes,” and Jane Austen’s “creepmouse” heroine...

...John Halperin Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 THE NOVELIST AS HEROINE INMANSFIELD PARK A STUDY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY By JOHN HALPEKIN Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s Vanity Fair. Almost everyone in it is selfish-self-absorbed...

... the silver-fork image of the Regency by retrieving from past literature an alternative model, which they found in Jane Austen’s novels. The “Victorianization” of the silver-fork genre, as of Austen, resulted in a historical double vision that in turn generated the Regency’s revaluation through...

... finely, Jane Austen includes direct comment on.novels by both narrator and characters.* The defense of novels at the end of Chapter V and the conversation in Chapter VI are ‘an excellent example of how comment by the nar- @JohnK. Mathison, “Northanger Abbey and ane Austen’s Conccption...

... in Language and Literature . Perfectly Helpless Andrew H. Miller n remarking that Jane Austen was, “of all great writers . . . the most Idifficult to capture in the act of greatness,” Virginia Woolf became only the most famously helpless of Austen’s readers, the culminating figure...

... Noble, 1965. 210 pp. $6.00. i$T. A. Craik sets out to “reveal more clearly the essential nature” of Jane Austen’s “known excellencies” by analyzing the “clear line of tlc\~elopment” in her six novels. This emphasis on de\-elopnient in narrati1.e tcchnique sets her study somewhat apart from...

... he question of Jane Austen’s relation to religion has been on the Tback burner since John Henry Newman declared in 1837 that she had “not a dream of the high Catholic ethos.”1 Like Newman, critical tradition has assumed that there is little to say about the subject beyond...