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Jane Austen's Art of Memory

By Jocelyn Harris

Book information

Year
1989
ISBN
0521363918, 9780521363914, 0521542073, 9780521542074, 9780511519031
LCC
PR4038.L5 H37 1989
Open Library ID
OL2182777M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1623067 bytes)
Pages
288\283
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Jane Austen's Art of Memory offers a radical new thesis about Jane Austen's construction of her art. It argues that, with the help of her tenacious memory, she engaged in friendly dialogue with her predecessors, the English writers, a process that the eighteenth century called 'imitation'. Her allusions, far from being random, thicken and complicate her novels in a manner that is poetic rather than mimetic. Difficult critical cruxes resolve when her books are set within her own great tradition which included Locke, Richardson, Milton, Shakespeare, and (unexpectedly) Chaucer, and she is found to be an educated and supremely conscious writer.

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