Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Tom Keymer
English | April 27th, 2022 | ISBN: 0198725957 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 1.83 MB
English | April 27th, 2022 | ISBN: 0198725957 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 1.83 MB
Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished Sanditon. She pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and was a penetrating satirist of social tensions and trends in an era dominated by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the socio-economic disruptions entailed by them. Yet Austen struggled for many years to break into print, and even as she became a published author in the last years of her relatively short life, reading tastes and book-trade expectations constrained as much as they enabled her literary career.
