Mastering the Novels of Jane Austen. (2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Gill, Richard
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART I: NORTHANGER ABBEY; 1 A consciously designed novel; 1.1 Works of art; 1.2 Locations; 1.3 Plotting, themes and characters; 1.4 False friends; 1.5 The true friend; 1.6 Love and lovers; 1.7 Meaning, manners and morals; 2 Fiction; 2.1 Just like a book; 2.2 On being a heroine; 2.3 Readers; 2.4 Catherine's imaginary world; 2.5 The Gothic novel; 2.6 Gothic parody; 2.7 Fiction and actuality; 2.8 The double crisis; 2.9 The interplay between fiction and actuality; 2.10 Thinking about novels; 2.11 The fiction-like nature of human life. 3 Spaces and places3.1 Settings; 3.2 The reader and Bath; 3.3 Landscape and seeing; 3.4 The places of the plot; 3.5 Power, spaces, hosts and guests; 3.6 Ejection; 3.7 Gothic space; 3.8 Popular Gothic; 3.9 Northanger's spaces; 3.10 Perception and imagination; 3.11 Gothic and neo-classical; 4 The education of a heroine; 4.1 Learning; 4.2 The pains of learning; 4.3 What Catherine gets right; 4.4 Taste; 4.5 Understanding Isabella and the General; 4.6 Gothic danger; 4.7 Catherine's doubts; 4.8 Trusting her judgement; 4.9 A Gloucestershire Montoni?; 4.10 Catherine: the model of true judgement. PART II: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY5 Sensibility; 5.1 Sensibility and the plot; 5.2 The sisters; 5.3 Two men; 5.4 The plot and the Colonel; 5.5 Relatives; 5.6 Design and theme; 5.7 The status of feeling; 5.8 Government; 5.9 A criticism of feeling; 5.10 Romanticism; 5.11 Romanticism in Sense and Sensibility; 5.12 The trajectory of the plot; 6 Sense; 6.1 Valuing sense; 6.2 Poise; 6.3 Elinor's sense of humour; 6.4 Reasoning; 6.5 Perception and evidence; 6.6 Elinor's testing; 6.7 The faculty of sense; 6.8 Edward's feelings; 6.9 Narrator, sense and reader; 7 Engagement; 7.1 Sensibility once more. 7.2 Sense and sensibility together7.3 The problem of presentation; 7.4 Misery; 7.5 The private and the public; 7.6 Engagement and romantic individualism; 7.7 The life of the self; 7.8 Inwardness; 8 Geography; 8.1 Inner space; 8.2 Space and feeling; 8.3 London spaces; 8.4 Country residences; 8.5 Dream homes; 8.6 Cleveland; 8.7 Norland; 8.8 The management of the estate; 8.9 Allenham; 8.10 Delaford; 8.11 Responsibility; 8.12 A hole in the canvas; 8.13 A comedy; PART III: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE; 9 Narrative and themes; 9.1 Sisters; 9.2 Hinderers; 9.3 Dialogue; 9.4 Variety of characters. 9.5 Community and war9.6 How the narrative works; 9.7 The unfolding of the plot; 9.8 The debate about marriage; 9.9 Morality and narrative; 10 Elizabeth and her men; 10.1 A couple approved; 10.2 Mr Collins; 10.3 Mr Wickham; 10.4 Mr Darcy; 10.5 Colonel Fitzwilliam; 10.6 Mr Bennet; 11 Different kinds of pride and prejudice; 11.1 Title words; 11.2 Mistaken judgements; 11.3 Pride in one's own discernment; 11.4 Pride in self and social standing; 11.5 Mr Darcy's pride; 11.6 Pride in family; 11.7 Prejudice in favour of one's offspring; 11.8 Predudice in favour of class distinction.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 823.7; Women Authors; Austen, Jane -- Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Handbooks and manuals; Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Critique et interpr?etation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0230629652; 9780230629653
• Related ISBNs: 033394898X; 9780333948989
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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