Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader

doi:10.11647/obp.0216

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0216

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright

Nora Bartlett; Jane Stabler

Published On

2021-02-03

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-975-1

Hardback978-1-78374-976-8

PDF978-1-78374-977-5

HTML978-1-80064-621-6

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EPUB978-1-78374-978-2

MOBI978-1-78374-979-9

Language

English

Print Length

252 pages (xviii+234)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 18 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.69" x 9.21")

Hardback156 x 21 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.81" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1069g (37.71oz)

Hardback1455g (51.32oz)

Media

Illustrations1

OCLC Number

1237379298

LCCN

2020445301

BIC

D
DSBF

BISAC

FIC027070
LIT024040
LIT004120
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LCC

PR4037
B37

Keywords

Jane Austen
fiction
human behaviour
family relationships
sickness
hypochondria
love
romance
literary criticism
regency
nineteenth century

Jane Austen

Reflections of a Reader

Nora Bartlett (author)
Jane Stabler (editor)

This volume presents an exhilarating and insightful collection of essays on Jane Austen – distilling the author’s deep understanding and appreciation of Austen’s works across a lifetime. The volume is both intra- and inter-textual in focus, ranging from perceptive analysis of individual scenes to the exploration of motifs across Austen’s fiction.

Full of astute connections, these lively discussions hinge on the study of human behaviour – from family relationships to sickness and hypochondria – highlighting Austen’s artful literary techniques and her powers of human observation.

Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader by (the late) Nora Bartlett is a brilliant contribution to the field of Jane Austen studies, both in its accessible style (which preserves the oral register of the original lectures), and in its foregrounding of the reader in a warm, compelling and incisive conversation about Austen’s works. As such, it will appeal widely to all lovers of Jane Austen, whether first-time readers, students or scholars.

Endorsements

This exhilarating collection of essays is the product of a lifetime's engagement with Jane Austen's writing. They are modest, searching, wonderfully perceptive essays from which all lovers of Jane Austen, the most knowledgeable as well as those who have just discovered her, will have much to learn. They are essays that send us back to the novels with a renewed understanding of Jane Austen's extraordinary achievement.

Prof. Richard Cronin

University of Glasgow

Reviews

A collection of insightful talks and essays on Jane Austen … Nora Bartlett throws light on the characters’ moments of grace, or on the power and truth of emotions … her acute and sympathetic observations … aim at developing the readers’ clear and accurate perception of Austen’s nuanced prose, and their awareness of more political themes, such as women’s economic and social predicament at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

"Nora Bartlett, Jane Austen: Reflections of A Reader". Miranda [Online] (2108-6559), vol. 23, 2021. doi:10.4000/miranda.41659

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