The Life of Jane Austen - Softcover

Halperin, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801855098 ISBN 13: 9780801855092

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Halperin Professor John

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"Halperin teases his Jane as he admires her, and by being so completely from another world does indeed makes us see her in a different way. He takes her right out of the incestuous love or hate embrace in which Janeites and anti- Janeites have concealed her so long. That is quite an accomplishment." -- John Bayley, New York Review of Books

"A fine contribution to Austen studies, for the details of her life, sound appraisals of her books, and identification of the many autobiographical elements in them." -- Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal

Reseña del editor

Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback edition of John Halperin's acclaimed and controversial biography moves beyond the usually vague account of Austen's life and away from the serene and untroubled image of Austen created by a protective family. In The Life ofJane Austen, Halperin reveals a robust, vigorous, and at times difficult woman with a large and diverse circle of family and acquaintances. He documents her troubled relationship with a hypochondriacal mother and her frank dislike of the sister-in-law who usurped her childhood home, sheds new light on the shadowy existence of a retarded older brother, and sets forth in greater detail than ever before the number and nature of Austen's relations to her suitors, the romantic passages of her life, and her attitude about childbearing.

Making fuller use of Austen's correspondence than previous biographers, Halperin shows us the costs exacted on a sensitive and critical personality by a society--and, frequently, a family--that paid too little attention to the predicament of unmarried women, especially those with inadequate financial means.

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801855098
• ISBN 13: 9780801855092
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 390