1st Edition

A Preface to Jane Austen

By Christopher Gillie Copyright 1986
    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    An excellent introduction to one of the best known authors in English Literature.

    List of illustrations  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part One: Biographical Background  1 Character and Family Background  2 Religion  3 Mysteries and Uncertainties  4 Juvenilia  Part Two: Literary Background  5 Augustan Sense and Sensibility  6 Literary Contemporaries: Isolation and Involvement  7 The Eighteenth-century Novel
    8 The Arts and the Social Order  9 Women in Life and Literature  Part Three: The Art of Jane Austen  10 Characterization: Heroines and Heroes  11 The Construction of the Novels  12 Emma  13 Jane Austen's Place in English Fiction  Part Four: Reference Section  Index

    Biography

    CHRISTOPHER GILLIE is an Arts Tutor for the Open University having for a long period served Trinity Hall, Cambridge as a lecturer in English. Among other books he has compiled the Longman Companion to English Literature and in 1983 published the volume on E M Forster for the present series.