Enit Karafili Steiner - Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey/Persuasion read online TXT, DOC, DJV
9781137432162 1137432160 Northanger Abbey was one of Jane Austen's earliest manuscripts; Persuasion was her last. Published together in a single volume after her death, the two books differ widely. Northanger Abbey is a spirited, Gothic parody, while Persuasion has increasingly been seen as a new direction for the Austen canon. The two texts have been widely analysed and debated since publication, and continue to be so today.In this Readers' Guide, Enit Karafili Steiner: delineates a clear trajectory through the books' many interpretations over two centuries, mapping these out thematically and chronologically contextualises and brings into dialogue influential approaches such as psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism, and feminism discusses film adaptations of the novels and their relation to literary criticism
9781137432162 1137432160 Northanger Abbey was one of Jane Austen's earliest manuscripts; Persuasion was her last. Published together in a single volume after her death, the two books differ widely. Northanger Abbey is a spirited, Gothic parody, while Persuasion has increasingly been seen as a new direction for the Austen canon. The two texts have been widely analysed and debated since publication, and continue to be so today.In this Readers' Guide, Enit Karafili Steiner: delineates a clear trajectory through the books' many interpretations over two centuries, mapping these out thematically and chronologically contextualises and brings into dialogue influential approaches such as psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism, and feminism discusses film adaptations of the novels and their relation to literary criticism