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Author Stovel, Bruce

Title Jane Austen & company : collected essays / Bruce Stovel ; Nora Foster Stovel, editor
Edition First edition, first printing, 2011
Published Edmonton, Alta. : Gutteridge Books, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 235 pages)
Contents Tom Jones and the Odyssey -- Tristram Shandy and the art of gossip -- "Female difficulties" : Charlotte Lennox's the Female quixote and Frances Burney's Camilla -- Waverley and the Aeneid : Scott's art of allusion -- Jane Austen and the pleasure principle -- Asking versus telling : one aspect of Jane Austen's idea of conversation -- "A contrariety of emotion" : Jane Austen's ambivalent lovers in Pride and prejudice -- Once more, with feeling : the structure of Mansfield Park -- Comic symmetry in Jane Austen's Emma -- "The sentient target of death" : Jane Austen's prayers -- The genesis of Evelyn Waugh's comic vision : Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and fall -- Traditional comedy and the comic mask in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235)
Notes Print version record
Subject Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Contemporaries
SUBJECT Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 fast
Subject Novelists, English -- Criticism and interpretation
Humorous stories, English -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Contemporaries
Humorous stories, English
Novelists, English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Stovel, Nora Foster, 1942-
ISBN 9780888646774
0888646771
Other Titles Jane Austen and company