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
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Contemporaries
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SUBJECT |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 fast |
Subject |
Novelists, English -- Criticism and interpretation
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Humorous stories, English -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Contemporaries
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Humorous stories, English
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Novelists, English
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Stovel, Nora Foster, 1942-
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ISBN |
9780888646774 |
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0888646771 |
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