03038cam a2200337 4500 547462404 TxAuBib 20220131120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780691229812 0691229813 B01772PS1E Amazon 9b56c26a-8ceb-40bd-8f47-516ea97bbe24 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2460798 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Johnston, Freya. Jane Austen, Early and Late [Libby]. Princeton University Press, 2021. american history. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 50MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 7603kB. History. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels—and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" work</b><br /> Jane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact. Her earlier writings have routinely been dismissed as mere juvenilia, or stepping stones to mature proficiency and greatness. Austen's first biographer described them as "childish effusions." Was he right to do so? Can the novels be definitively separated from the unpublished works? In <i>Jane Austen, Early and Late</i>, Freya Johnston argues that they cannot.<br /> Examining the three manuscript volumes in which Austen collected her earliest writings, Johnston finds that Austen's regard and affection for them are revealed by her continuing to revisit and revise them throughout her adult life. The teenage works share the milieu and the humour of the novels, while revealing more clearly the sources and influences upon which Austen drew. Johnston upends the conventional narrative, according to which Austen discarded the satire and fantasy of her first writings in favour of the irony and realism of the novels. By demonstrating a stylistic and thematic continuity across the full range of Austen's work, Johnston asks whether it makes sense to speak of an early and a late Austen at all.<br /> <i>Jane Austen, Early and Late</i> offers a new picture of the author in all her complexity and ambiguity, and shows us that it is not necessarily true that early work yields to later, better things.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9b56c26a-8ceb-40bd-8f47-516ea97bbe24&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9b56c26a-8ceb-40bd-8f47-516ea97bbe24&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9b56c26a-8ceb-40bd-8f47-516ea97bbe24&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)