This book presents Jane Austen as a radical innovator. It explores the nature of her confrontation with the popular novelists of her time, and demonstrates how her challenge to them transformed fiction. Mary Waldron shows how Austen's novels exemplify the strong skepticism about contemporary notion
Jane Austen and Her Times
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- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
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