...Mary A. Favret Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen after War .By Eric C. Walker. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xiv + 283 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions. By...

... Kulturwissenschaften, edited with Ansgar Nünning (2003); and Kulturgeschichte der englischen Literatur: Von der Renaissance zur Gegenwart, an edited collection (2005). © 2005 University of Washington 2005 Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen . By Jenny...

...Jesse Molesworth Surprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen . By Miller Christopher R. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2015 . vii + 269 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 Few topics in literary studies are hotter than the...

...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...

...), Siskin is currently working on a study of the genre of system. University of Washington 2006 The Historical Austen . By William H. Galperin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. viii + 286 pp. Reviews Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern...

...Tim Fulford Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Romanticizing the Empire: The Naval Heroes of Southey, Coleridge, Austen, and Marryat Tim Fulford In August 1830 the newly popular novelist Captain Frederick Marryat received a letter. Washington Irving, its...

...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...

...? 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 a...

...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...

... 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...

... differently 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...

... Austen, whose Northanger Abbey formulates one aspect of novelistic realism precisely through the avoidance of gothic temporality. Jesse Molesworth is assistant professor of English at Indiana University. His book Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic (2010) was...

...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...

... 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 in a...

...-familiar tenor. Beginning with Shakespeare’s Henry VIII (a story of secularization in the oldest sense of the term, the seizure of church property by the state), he weaves through chapters on Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto , Jane Austen’s Emma , Coleridge’s Kubla Khan , Walter Scott’s Waverley...

... 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 a...

.... Lynch’s edited collection Janeites focused on that boundary, and in her introduction to that volume she wryly noted that “a customary method of establishing one’s credentials as a reader of Austen has been to regret that others simply will insist on liking her in inappropriate ways” (Lynch 2000 : 7...

... Writing of History, 1670 Ð 1820. By Devoney Looser. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 272 pp. The odds are good that even readers unacquainted with Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey will have encountered the description of historical study proffered by its heroine. Catherine...

...). James Kuzner James Kuzner is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. He is writing a dis- sertation on the shape of the speaking subject in English Renaissance literature. doi 10.1215/00267929-2006-017 The Historical Austen. By William H. Galperin. Philadelphia: University of...