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What Matters in Jane Austen?
Twenty Essential Questions Answered
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250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION ‘Almost as good as finding an unpublished novel’ The Lady 'Any new book on Austen raises the urgent question, Would I get more pleasure from reading this than from re-reading my favourite Austen novel? You'll know after a few pages here that you've...
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A gorgeous new edition of John Mullan's classic work on Jane Austen, to mark the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth
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250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION
‘Almost as good as finding an unpublished novel’ The Lady
'Any new book on Austen raises the urgent question, Would I get more pleasure from reading this than from re-reading my favourite Austen novel? You'll know after a few pages here that you've made the right choice' Sunday Times
Is there any sex in Jane Austen? Why do her plots rely on blunders? Which important characters never actually speak?
In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's novels, John Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of Austen's fiction. Inspired by an enthusiastic reader's curiosity, based on a lifetime's study and written with flair and insight, What Matters in Jane Austen? uncovers the hidden truth about an extraordinary fictional world.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526693945
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 22 May 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 385g
Pages: 352
About the Author
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, his books including The Artful Dickens (Bloomsbury, 2020). He has edited Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Emma for Oxford World’s Classics. He is also a broadcaster and journalist, writing on contemporary fiction for the Guardian. He has taught Austen to university students for over three decades, and has lectured widely to lovers of her fiction in both the UK and the US. He lives in London.
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