a study of the novelist's development through the surviving papers /
First Statement of Responsibility
by B.C. Southam.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
New ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Athlone Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiv, 159 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Continuum studies in Jane Austen
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION (2001); PREFACE; REFERENCES; LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS USED; 1. The Writing of the Juvenilia; 2. A Critical Study of the Juvenilia; 3. Lady Susan and the Lost Originals 1795-1800; 4. The Watsons; 5. The Plan of a Novel; 6. The Two Chapters of Persuasion; 7. The Last Work, Sanditon; 8. Sir Charles Grandison; APPENDIX. Theories of Composition for Mansfield Park and Emma; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; P; R; S; T; W.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Jane Austen''s Literary Manuscripts remains the definitive account of the novelist''s surviving papers. These date from 1787 to 1817, from the first beginning to the veyr end of her writing career. Their evidence considerably deepens our understanding of the imaginative process that stands behind the composition of the great novels. In Sanditon, the last work, we see the promise of a further and startling development in her art. The influence of her childhood reading and home life is considered in the first chapter, and a further new chapter examines Sir Charles Grandison, a work newly attribu.